Juliana Spahr

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Juliana Spahr
O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize

National Poetry Series Award

Juliana Spahr (born 1966

Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring.[3]

Both Spahr's critical and scholarly studies, i.e., Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (2001), and her poetry have shown Spahr's commitment to fostering a "value of reading" as a communal, democratic, open process.[4] Her work therefore "distinguishes itself because she writes poems for which her critical work calls."[5] In addition to teaching and writing poetry, Spahr is also an active editor.[4] Spahr received the National Poetry Series Award for her first collection of poetry, Response (1996).[4]

Life

Born and raised in

Mills College (2003–). With Jena Osman, she edited the arts journal Chain from 1993 to 2003.[6] In 2012, Spahr co-edited A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism with Mills colleague and fellow-poet Stephanie Young.[7]

Activism

Spahr's participation in the 2011 Occupy Movement is chronicled in her 2015 book That Winter The Wolf Came.[8] According to Spahr, she spent time in the encampments and participated in protests, although she and her son "never spent the night."[9] Her work examines social issues, including the repercussions of the BP oil spill, the global impact of September 11 attacks, capitalism, and climate change. She uses poetry as a mechanism to provide cultural recognition and representation to social movements and political actions.[10]

Following the

Eric Garner, and Mike Brown, and the 2009 California college tuition hike protests, Spahr founded the publishing project Commune Editions, along with Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover.[11] The project was founded with the intention to publish poetry as a companion to political action.[11]

Bibliography

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, New York: Palm Press, 2003)
    ISBN 0-9743181-0-8
  • This Connection of Everyone With Lungs (University of California Press, 2005)
  • Well Then There Now (Black Sparrow Press, 2011)
    ISBN 978-1-57423-217-2
  • That Winter The Wolf Came (Commune Editions, 2015)

Fiction

Criticism

  • Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (University of Alabama Press, 2001)
  • Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (Harvard University Press, 2018)

Editor

  • Writing from the New Coast: Technique (essay collection) Co-editor with Peter Gizzi. (Stockbridge: O-blek Editions, 1993)
  • A Poetics of Criticism (essay collection) Co-editor with Mark Wallace, Kristin Prevallet, and Pam Rehm. (Buffalo: Leave Books, 1993)
  • 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)
  • A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism [co-edited with Stephanie Young], (ChainLinks, 2011)

References

  1. ^ Spahr, Juliana (2005-01-19). "Juliana Spahr". Juliana Spahr. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  2. ^ "Juliana Spahr". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2018-01-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Juliana Spahr Wins Prestigious Hardison Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library
  4. ^ a b c O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize: Juliana Spahr Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine note that the 2009 judges were Claudia Rankine and Joshua Weiner.
  5. ^ from the essay "All/Together Now: Writing the Space of Collectivities in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr", American Women Poets in the 21st Century, Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
  6. ^ "Chain, the journal". www.chainarts.org. Archived from the original on 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  7. ^ "Crotchless-Pants-and-a-Machine-Gun Feminism – Ms. Magazine". 2011-04-26. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  8. ^ "That Winter the Wolf Came | AK Press". www.akpress.org. Archived from the original on 2015-02-28.
  9. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  10. ^ Foundation, Poetry. "Responding to 'What Is Literary Activism?'". Harriet: The Blog. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  11. ^ a b "About". communeeditions.com. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
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