Juliana Spahr

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Juliana Spahr (born 1966) is an American poet, critic, and editor.

Contents 1 Life 2 Bibliography 2.1 Poetry 2.2 Criticism 2.3 Editor 3 External links

[edit] Life

Born and raised in Chillicothe, Ohio, Spahr received her BA from Bard College in Languages and Literatures and her PhD from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in English. She has taught at Siena College (1996-7), the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1997-2003), and Mills College (2003-). With Jena Osman, she edits the arts journal Chain.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Poetry

• Nuclear (Leave Books, 1994) - full text
• Response (Sun & Moon Press, 1996) - full text
• Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism (Explosive Books, 1998)
• Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)
• Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another (Newfield, NY: Palm Press, 2003)ISBN 0-9743181-0-8
• This Connection of Everyone With Lungs (University of California Press, 2005)
• The Transformation (Berkeley, CA: Atelos Press) forthcoming

[edit] Criticism

• Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (University of Alabama Press, 2001)

[edit] Editor

• Chain [co-edited with Jena Osman ], since 1994 full text
• American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language [co-edited with Claudia Rankine ], (Wesleyan University Press, 2002)
• Poetry and Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary [co-edited with Joan Retallack ], (Palgrave, 2006)

[edit] External links

• Archival Webpage
• "Poetic Profile" at Chicago Postmodern Poetry, including an elaborate diagram of her (self-identified) influences
• A Brief Q&A with Juliana Spahr