Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently Blue Venus. Her poems appear in many periodicals, including the Paris Review, Yale Review, and the Best American Poetry series. She lives in Charlottesville, where she is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Other poems by Lisa Russ Spaar in Verse Daily:
February 25, 2007:   "No Picnic" "My heart hollows..."
November 15, 2005:   "Winter Solstice" " Blue, tense with cold and joy..."

Books by Lisa Russ Spaar: Satin Cash, All That Mighty Heart: London Poems, Blue Venus, Acquainted with the Night

Other poems on the web by Lisa Russ Spaar:
Two poems
Three poems
"I Consider My Mother's Mind"
Three poems
Four poems
Ten poems
"After John Donne's 'To his Mistress Going to Bed'"