Robin Beth Schaer

Robin Beth Schaer
Schaer at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	American
Website
www.robinbethschaer.com

Robin Beth Schaer is an American poet.

Life

Born in 1971, She graduated from Colgate University and Columbia University, and has taught at Columbia University and worked at the Academy of American Poets.

She is the author of one book of poetry, Shipbreaking. Her work has appeared in Rattapallax,^[1] Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Barrow Street, Washington Square.^[2]

She teaches at The New School and Cooper Union, has worked as a deckhand aboard the Bounty, and lives in New York City.

Awards

• Yaddo
• Djerassi Resident Artists Program
• Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship ^[3]

Works

• Shipbreaking (Anhinga 2015)
• "Falling Overboard", on the loss of HMS Bounty during Hurricane Sandy, "Paris Review", November 2012
• "Flight Distance", "Tornado", and "Wildfire", "The Awl", October 21. 2010
• "Insomnia", Guernica, September 2005
• "Mourning"; "After Mourning", Rattapallax
• "Endangerment Finding", Poems for the First 100 Days, April 22, 2009
• Amphibian. Columbia University. 2005.

Anthologies

• Rachel Zucker, Arielle Greenberg, eds. (2010). Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days. University Of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-58729-871-4.^[4]
• Natasha Trethewey, Jeb Livingood, eds. (2007). Best New Poets, 2007. Samovar Press. ISBN 978-0-9766296-2-7.^[5]

References

1. "Rattapallax 11 / Incluye un CD". google.com. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
2. http://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/issues.html
3. KGB Bar. "KGB Bar". kgbbar.com. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
4. "Starting Today". uiowa.edu. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
5. http://www.bestnewpoets.org/2007selections.html

External links

• "Official Homepage"
• "Three Poems By Robin Beth Schaer", "The Awl"
• "Robin Beth Schaer", Fishouse
• "Robin Beth Schaer reads “Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art” by John Keats", Poets on Poets