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American poet
Susan McLean
Occupation
  • Poet
  • translator
  • professor
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Rutgers University (PhD)
Notable awardsRichard Wilbur Award (2009)
Donald Justice Poetry Prize (2014)

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

She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990. Her work has appeared in Kalliope, Atlanta Review, The Formalist, Iambs and Trochees, Arion, Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination. 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.

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References

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