Susan McLean

Susan McLean is an American poet, a translator of poetry,^[1] and a retired professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota.^[2]

She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990.^[3]^[4] Her work has appeared in Kalliope,^[5] Atlanta Review, The Formalist,^[6] Iambs and Trochees, Arion,^[7] Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.^[8] She writes in the field of formalism. According to an interview with the Poetry Foundation, 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.^[9]

Awards

2015 Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award^[10]
2014 Donald Justice Poetry Prize
2009 Richard Wilbur Award
2006 the Leslie Mellichamp Prize from The Lyric
2004 McKnight Artist Fellowship/Loft Award in Poetry

Works

"Deep Cover"; "Desire"; "Hazard", Mezzo Cammin
"Translations of Latin epigrams by Martial", The Chimaera, January 2008
"Vanity: On a painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper", Eratosphere
"Unscripted"; "Raw", Umbrella, Issue 2, 2007
Translator, Martial, Selected Epigrams, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0299301743
The Whetstone Misses the Knife, Story Line Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0996078207
The Best Disguise, University of Evansville Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-930982-68-3
Holding Patterns, Finishing Line Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-59924-096-1

Anthologies

Currents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy, Texas Tech University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0896729285
Irresistible Sonnets, Headmistress Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0615931517
Villanelles, Everyman's Library, 2012, ISBN 978-0307957863
The Best of The Barefoot Muse, Barefoot Muse Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0615570730
The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, Red Hen Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1597091329
Hot Sonnets, Entasis Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0980099997
Kiss and Part: Laughing at the End of Romance and Other Entanglements, Doggerel Daze Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0972282024
Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets University of Evansville Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-930982-59-1

References

^ "MARTIAL: SELECTED EPIGRAMS | Classics for All Reviews". Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
^ "SMSU - SMSU Directory". www.smsu.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
^ "Alumni Poets".
^ "Alumni Poets". english.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
^ Kalliope. Jacksonville Women's Poetry Collective, Center for the Continuing Education of Women, Florida Junior College at Jacksonville. 1992-01-01.
^ The Formalist. The Formalist. 2001-01-01.
^ Arion. Trustees of Boston University. 2003-01-01.
^ Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. The Association. 2007-01-01.
^ Stallings, A. E. (29 November 2007). "Why No One Wants to be a New Formalist". Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ "2015 Literary Award Winners & Finalists | PEN Center USA". Archived from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 2015-12-17.