Roberta Spear

Roberta Spear (born 1948 Hanford, California - 2003) was an American poet.

Life

Her work appeared in Field, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Missouri Review. She lived in Fresno, California.^[1]

Silks: Poems. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1980.
Talking to Water (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985)
The pilgrim among us. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. ISBN 9780819512000. http://books.google.com/books?id=EHtApU7FsukC&dq=Roberta+Spear&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=IBcOxHlYSA&sig=miyCuSPeshz5oAy6tBxw42-zsx8&hl=en&ei=hqO6Sr_pD4Kf8Aatw7mMCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
Philip Levine, ed (2007). A sweetness rising: new and selected poems. Great Valley Books. ISBN 9781597140638.

Stan Yogi, ed (1996). "Some Voices". Highway 99: a literary journey through California's Great Central Valley. Heyday Books. ISBN 9780930588823. http://books.google.com/books?id=TI4Glgn4C1wC&pg=PA340&dq=Roberta+Spear#v=onepage&q=Roberta%20Spear&f=false.
Dave Smith, David Bottoms, ed (1985). The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Photographer David Bottoms. Quill. ISBN 9780688034504.
Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, ed (2001). How much earth: the Fresno poets. Roundhouse Press. ISBN 9780966669176.
Michael Collier, ed (1995). "Chestnuts for Verdi". The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819512291. http://books.google.com/books?id=j2a30L32SCEC&pg=PT1&dq=Roberta+Spear&lr=#v=onepage&q=Roberta%20Spear&f=false.