Spencer Short
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Spencer Ryun Short is an American poet.
Life[edit]
Short graduated from James Madison University, the University of Michigan and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching Writing Fellowship.[1] His collection of poetry, Tremolo, was a winner of the 2000 National Poetry Series, selected by Billy Collins. It was published by HarperPerennial in 2001.[2]
He studied law at the University of Chicago.[3] While in law school, he worked for the MacArthur Justice Center and as a teaching assistant for law professor Cass Sunstein.[4] He also aided prominent civil rights (and MacArthur Justice Center) attorney Joseph Margulies on his book, Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power.[5] He currently works as an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in New York.[6] He lives in Brooklyn.[7]
Critical reception[edit]
Emily Nussbaum, reviewing Tremolo for The New York Times, noted ""a prickly stir of humor, philosophy and romantic giddiness," and that "reading this book is something like walking into a kitchen at a party and coming upon a wild charmer you'd never met, mid-gesticulation -- a terrific storyteller, but also one eager to switch gears mid-sentence, mid-phrase, mid-thought." According to Nussbaum, "Short is genuinely funny -- a rare and beautiful quality among contemporary poets."[8] Cal Bedient, reviewing Tremolo in the Boston Review, found "a clawing power of invention."[9] Travis Nichols, reviewing Tremolo in Jacket, called it "a singular achievement, both astute and warm, that hopefully represents only the first meditation in an ongoing and fruitful emergency."[10] In 2003, Short was included in the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets festival honoring the "most interesting recent first book poets."[11] His poems have been included in several anthologies.[12][13][14]
Awards[edit]
- 2000 National Poetry Series Open Competition with Tremolo (published in 2001 by HarperCollins).
Works[edit]
- Tremolo. HarperPerennial. 2001.
External links[edit]
- "Tremolo, Harper Hill"
- "Goodbye, Billyburg" - Slate.com
- "Boat" - Boston Review Archived 2012-07-30 at the Wayback Machine
- "The Bedbug Variations" - Boston Review
References[edit]
- ^ World Archipelago. "Spencer Short". HarperCollins US.
- ^ "Jonathan Wells & Spencer Short reading". Writinguniversity.org. Archived from the original on 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Tuesday, September 07, 2004". Herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
- ^ Sunstein, Cass R. (6 September 2009). Republic.com 2.0. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691143286.
- ^ Margulies, Joseph (3 July 2007). Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743286862.
- ^ "Spencer R. Short | Skadden". Archived from the original on 2013-06-11. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Millay Colony - Staff". Millaycolony.org. Archived from the original on 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "X, Y and Me". The New York Times. 25 November 2001.
- ^ "Cal Bedient: Poetry Reviews". Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Jacket 19 - Travis Nichols reviews Tremolo, by Spencer Short". Jacketmagazine.com.
- ^ "New American Poets". Poetrysociety.org.
- ^ "Isn't it romantic : 100 love poems by younger American poets / edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer & Aimee Kelley ; with an introduction by Charles Simic. - Version details". Trove.
- ^ "Schwerkraft - TUBUK. Nicht jedes Buch". Archived from the original on 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Conversation pieces : poems that talk to other poems / selected by Kurt Brown and Harold Schechter. - Version details". Trove.
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