Reg Saner

Reg Saner (born 1931, Jacksonville, Illinois) is an American poet.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Non-fiction 3.3 Anthologies 4 References 5 External links

Life

He graduated from St. Norbert College, near Green Bay, Wisconsin.

He served as an infantry platoon leader in the Korean War.

He studied at University of Illinois, an received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at University of Florence.

In the early 1960s he married Anne.^[1]

From September 1962, to December 1998, he taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder.^[2]

He lives in Boulder, Colorado.^[3]

Awards

• 1975 Walt Whitman Award
• 1981 National Poetry Series open competition
• 1983 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
• 1998 Wallace Stegner award
• 1999 Boulder, Colorado city's first poet laureate

Works

Poetry

• Climbing into the roots: poems. Harper & Row. 1976. ISBN 9780060137625. 
• So This Is the Map. Random House. 1981. ISBN 9780394516684. 
• Essay On Air. Ohio Review. 1984. ISBN 9780942148039. 
• "Red Letters (1981)"

Non-fiction

• "Soldier Poets, a Gadfly, and the Long-Haired Persian". WLA Journal. Fall/Winter 2000. http://www.wlajournal.com/12_2/Saner1.pdf. 
• The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene. Johns Hopkins. 1993. ISBN 9780801844492.  (Kodansha paperback, 1994)
• Reaching Keet Seel: Ruin’s Echo & the Anasazi (University Press of Utah, 1998)
• The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World Center for American Places 2005

Anthologies

• Lorrie Goldensohn, ed (2006). American war poetry: an anthology. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231133104. http://books.google.com/?id=GMV1-DVh4sIC&pg=PA270&dq=Reg+Saner+poetry. 
• Short Takes (Norton, 2005)
• Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terr (Persea, 2004)
• Poetry Comes Up Where It Can (University of Utah Press, 2000)
• Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England, 1999)
• Generations. Penguin. 1998. ISBN 9780140587845. 

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