# Susan McLean

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{{short description|American poet}}
{{infobox writer
|name=Susan McLean
|occupation={{flatlist|
*Poet
*translator
*professor
}}
|nationality=American
|education=[Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) ([BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))<br>[Rutgers University](/source/Rutgers_University) ([PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy))
|awards=[Richard Wilbur Award](/source/Richard_Wilbur_Award) (2009)<br>[Donald Justice Poetry Prize](/source/Donald_Justice_Poetry_Prize) (2014)
}}
'''Susan McLean''' is an American [poet](/source/poet), a translator of poetry,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://classicsforallreviews.wordpress.com/2015/07/22/martial-selected-epigrams/ |title=MARTIAL: SELECTED EPIGRAMS &#124; 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](/source/Southwest_Minnesota_State_University) in [Marshall, Minnesota](/source/Marshall%2C_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](/source/Harvard_University) with a [BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) in English in 1975 and from [Rutgers University](/source/Rutgers_University) with a [PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) 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](/source/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](/source/Formalism_(literature)). According to an interview with the [Poetry Foundation](/source/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 &#124; 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](/source/Donald_Justice_Poetry_Prize)
*2009 [Richard Wilbur Award](/source/Richard_Wilbur_Award)
*2006 the [Leslie Mellichamp Prize](/source/Leslie_Mellichamp_Prize) from [The Lyric](/source/The_Lyric_(magazine))
*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](/source/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==
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