Susan McLean is an American

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, a translator of poetry, and a retired professor of English at

Southwest Minnesota State University Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU) is a public university in Marshall, Minnesota. It is part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. The university has an enrollment of approximately 8,700 students and employs 148 fa ...

Marshall, Minnesota Marshall is a city in Lyon County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 13,680 at the 2010 census. Marshall is a regional center in southwest Minnesota, and the county seat of Lyon County. It is the headquarters of the Schwan Food Com ...

. She graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

with a BA in English in 1975 and from

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

with a

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in 1990. Her work has appeared in ''Kalliope,'' ''

Atlanta Review ''Atlanta Review'' is an international poetry journal based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded by Daniel Veach in 1994 and is published twice a year. Karen Head of the Georgia Institute of Technology became editor in 2016. The jou ...

, The Formalist,'' ''Iambs and Trochees, Arion,'' ''Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.'' She writes in the field of

formalism Formalism may refer to: * Form (disambiguation) * Formal (disambiguation) * Legal formalism, legal positivist view that the substantive justice of a law is a question for the legislature rather than the judiciary * Formalism (linguistics) * Scient ...

. According to an interview with the

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, she describes her love of formalism as: " I am addicted to the esoteric pleasures of rhyme and meter, and I don’t even try to deny it or camouflage it with slant rhyme". She has been portrayed as a New Formalist by many if not most noted critics of her work.

Awards

*2015 Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award *2014

Donald Justice Poetry Prize The Donald Justice Poetry Prize is a prestigious national competitionJessica Benham.Texas Tech University Professor Receives Prestigious Donald Justice Poetry Prize" ''Texas Tech News''. July 14, 2008 sponsored by the Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awar ...

*2009

Richard Wilbur Award The Richard Wilbur Award is an American poetry award and publishing prize given by University of Evansville in Indiana. It is named in honor of the American poet Richard Wilbur and was established by William Baer, a professor at the University o ...

*2006 the Leslie Mellichamp Prize from The Lyric *2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Poetry

Works

"Deep Cover"; "Desire"; "Hazard"
''Mezzo Cammin''

''The Chimaera'', January 2008
"Vanity: On a painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper"
''Eratosphere''

''Umbrella'', Issue 2, 2007 * Translator, Martial, ''Selected Epigrams'', University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, * ''The Whetstone Misses the Knife'', Story Line Press, 2014, * ''The Best Disguise'', University of Evansville Press, 2009, * ''Holding Patterns'', Finishing Line Press, 2006,

Anthologies

* ''Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy'', Texas Tech University Press, 2015, * ''Irresistible Sonnets'',

Headmistress Press Headmistress Press is a small press based in Sequim, Washington. Founded in 2013, the press specializes in poetry by lesbian poets. Notable poets who have published collections with Headmistress include Janice Gould, Joy Ladin, Constance Merritt ...

, 2014, * ''Villanelles'', Everyman's Library, 2012, * ''The Best of The Barefoot Muse'', Barefoot Muse Press, 2011, * ''The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems'', Red Hen Press, 2011, * ''Hot Sonnets'', Entasis Press, 2011, * ''Kiss and Part: Laughing at the End of Romance and Other Entanglements'', Doggerel Daze Press, 2005, * ''Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets'' University of Evansville Press, 2005,

References

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