Verse Daily: Lisa Russ Spaar

Today's poem is "No Picnic"

from Meridian

Lisa Russ Spaar's most recent book is Blue Venus: Poems. She is the author of Glass Town: Poems, for which she received a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000. She is editing an anthology of London poems, forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press in 2008. The recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Spaar is the Director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing at the University of Virginia, where she is an Associate Professor of English.
Other poems by Lisa Russ Spaar in Verse Daily:

November 15, 2005: "Winter Solstice" " Blue, tense with cold and joy..."
About Meridian:
Poets in this issue: Keith Althaus, Herman Asarnow, Sam Byfield, Patrick Donnelly, Matthew Gavin Frank, Isabel Galbraith, Kimberly Johnson, Agi Mishol, Gregory Orr, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Josh Rathkamp, Michael Robins, Lisa Russ Spaar, Sam Taylor, Nance Van Winckel

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Other poems from Meridian in Verse Daily:
February 24, 2007: "Parts of a Feather" by Matthew Gavin Frank
February 21, 2007: "If I Could Throw My Voice" by Keith Althaus
February 19, 2007: "Sky One" by Nance Van Winckel
July 13, 2006: "The Sign" by Elizabeth Sanger
July 12, 2006: "Domiciliary of the State" by Kevin Barents
July 11, 2006: "Poem Against Poem" by George Moore
February 22, 2006: "If You Cannot Be True" by Hayden Draper
July 1, 2005: "Greenhouse" by Rebecca Givens
June 30, 2005: "Animals" Alison Powell
June 27, 2005: "Tehachapi" St. James Wood
February 10, 2005: "Ecclesiastes" by Susan L. Miller
November 3, 2004: "'Thank You'" by Mia Leonin
June 3, 2004: "The Given" by Lawrence Revard
June 1, 2004: "Oyster Shard" by Sarah M. Brownsberger
May 31, 2004: "Behind the Fear of Flying" by Jason Nemec
February 2, 2004: "An Admonition" by Seamus Heaney
November 11, 2003: "Impossible Garden" by John Isles
July 24, 2003: "from The Decalogue (III)" by Susan Wood
July 22, 2003: "The Runes, the Brute Remedies" by Elton Glaser
January 30, 2003: "Ode on Satan's Power" by Barbara Hamby
September 8, 2002: "Plato and the Fall" by David Young
September 4, 2002: "Blue Colonial" by David Roderick
August 26, 2002: "Improvident Knowledge" by R. T. Smith

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