{{short description|American poet}} {{infobox writer |name=Susan McLean |occupation={{flatlist| *Poet *translator *professor }} |nationality=American |education=Harvard University (BA)<br>Rutgers University (PhD) |awards=Richard Wilbur Award (2009)<br>Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2014) }} '''Susan McLean''' is an American poet, a translator of poetry,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://classicsforallreviews.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/martial-selected-epigrams/ |title=MARTIAL: SELECTED EPIGRAMS | Classics for All Reviews |access-date=2016-09-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014034836/https://classicsforallreviews.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/martial-selected-epigrams/ |archive-date=2016-10-14 }}</ref> and a retired professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.smsu.edu/directory/index.cfm?dir=3&progid=91|archive-url = https://archive.today/20120805142412/http://www.smsu.edu/directory/index.cfm?dir=3&progid=91|url-status = dead|archive-date = 2012-08-05|title = SMSU - SMSU Directory|website = www.smsu.edu|access-date = 2016-03-24}}</ref>
She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1310&Itemid=2720|title = Alumni Poets}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1310&Itemid=2720|title=Alumni Poets|website=english.rutgers.edu|access-date=2016-03-24}}</ref> Her work has appeared in ''Kalliope,''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=moG0AAAAIAAJ|title=Kalliope|date=1992-01-01|publisher=Jacksonville Women's Poetry Collective, Center for the Continuing Education of Women, Florida Junior College at Jacksonville|language=en}}</ref> ''Atlanta Review, The Formalist,''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HSxaAAAAMAAJ|title=The Formalist|date=2001-01-01|publisher=The Formalist|language=en}}</ref> ''Iambs and Trochees, Arion,''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=03QoAQAAIAAJ|title=Arion|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Trustees of Boston University|language=en}}</ref> ''Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wToqAQAAIAAJ|title=Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics|date=2007-01-01|publisher=The Association|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/why-no-one-wants-to-be-a-new-formalist/ | first=A. E. | last=Stallings | author-link=A. E. Stallings | title = Why No One Wants to be a New Formalist | date=29 November 2007 | access-date=27 July 2021}}</ref>
==Awards== *2015 Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award<ref>{{cite web |url=https://penusa.org/2015-award-winners-finalists |title=2015 Literary Award Winners & Finalists | PEN Center USA |access-date=2015-12-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116011403/https://penusa.org/2015-award-winners-finalists |archive-date=2016-01-16 }}</ref> *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== *[http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol=2006&iss=2&cat=poetry&page=mclean "Deep Cover"; "Desire"; "Hazard"], ''Mezzo Cammin'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20090912223731/http://www.the-chimaera.com/January2008/Trans/McLean.html "Translations of Latin epigrams by Martial"], ''The Chimaera'', January 2008 *[http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=5534 "Vanity: On a painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper"], ''Eratosphere'' *[http://www.umbrellajournal.com/spring2007/poetry/SusanMcLean.html "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}}
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