Juliana Spahr

1966

She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a United States. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring. Both Spahr"s critical and scholarly studies, id est (that is), 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. Her work therefore "distinguishes itself because she writes poems for which her critical work calls." In addition to teaching and writing poetry, Spahr is also an active editors She has taught at Siena College (1996-1997), the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1997–2003), and Mills College (since 2003). With Jena Osman, she edited the arts journal Chain from 1993 to 2003. Spahr"s participation in the 2011 Occupy Movement is chronicled in her 2015 book That Winter The Wolf Came. She uses poetry as a mechanism to provide cultural recognition and representation to social movements and political actions. Following the Occupy Movement, the police shootings of Oscar Grant, 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. The project was founded with the intention to publish poetry as a companion to political action.

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This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems (New California Poetry)

( Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hyp...)

That Winter the Wolf Came

( That Winter the Wolf Came is written for this era of gl...)

That Winter the Wolf Came is written for this era of global struggle. It finds its ferment at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe. Its feminist and celebratory energy is fueled by street protests and their shattered windows. Amid oil spills and austerity measures and shore birds and a child holding its mother’s hand and hissing teargas canisters, it reminds us exactly what we must fight to defend with a wild ferocity, and what we’re up against. "In her poems, love does not resist the world beyond; love lets it in. Politics demands feeling rather than denuding it." Los Angeles Review of Books "Geography, economics, ecology, hydrology, local and international history; repetition, flat limited diction, lengthy chant; intersections of incompatible discourses, such as a field biologist’s checklist plus memoir, medical record plus ode, incantation plus site report: Spahr draws on these resources and procedures to make poems that feel like bizarre, careful essays, and essays that feel like sad, extended poems." The Nation "...a work of crisp wit, bizarre conjunctions and ultimately enduring moral authority." Publisher’s Weekly Excerpt: It was Non-Revolution. Or it was me. Or it was Non-Revolution and me. I was unsure what it really was. Maybe it was my thoughts. My thoughts at one minute about Non-Revolution. About the smell of Non-Revolution. Sweat, urine, sage, pot, rotting food, hay, all mixed together. Perhaps about Non-Revolution’s body. I am sure I am not the only one who has thought it exceptional, but I am also just as sure that by the standards of bodies, Non-Revolution’s is fine but not exceptional. That is the point. That is why Non-Revolution is called Non-Revolution, why they have revolution as a possibility in their name but it is a modified and thus negated possibility so as to suggest they are possibly neither good nor fucked. Still something about Non-Revolution’s smell and body had gotten into me.

(This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems) Author: Juliana Spahr published on (April, 2005)

This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems (New California Poetry) by Juliana Spahr (2005-04-01)

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Born and raised in Chillicothe, Ohio, Spahr received her Bachelor from Bard College and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in English.

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She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a United States. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring. Both Spahr"s critical and scholarly studies, id est (that is), 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. Her work therefore "distinguishes itself because she writes poems for which her critical work calls." In addition to teaching and writing poetry, Spahr is also an active editors

She has taught at Siena College (1996-1997), the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1997–2003), and Mills College (since 2003).

With Jena Osman, she edited the arts journal Chain from 1993 to 2003. Spahr"s participation in the 2011 Occupy Movement is chronicled in her 2015 book That Winter The Wolf Came.

She uses poetry as a mechanism to provide cultural recognition and representation to social movements and political actions. Following the Occupy Movement, the police shootings of Oscar Grant, 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.

The project was founded with the intention to publish poetry as a companion to political action.