Reg Saner (born 1928, died 2021,

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) was an American

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and professor.

Life

He graduated from

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, near

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. He served as an infantry platoon leader in the

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. He studied at

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, an received a

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to study at

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. In the early 1960s he married Anne. From September 1962, to December 1998, he taught at the

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. Until his death in 202

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Awards

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* 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

* * * * ''Red Letters'' (1981)

Non-fiction

* * (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

* * ''Short Takes'' (Norton, 2005) * ''Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism'' (Persea, 2004) * ''Poetry Comes Up Where It Can'' (University of Utah Press, 2000) * ''Orpheus & Company'' (University Press of New England, 1999) *