Susan McLean

Susan McLean is an American poet, a translator of poetry,^[1] and a retired professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, Minnesota.^[2]

She graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English in 1975 and from Rutgers University with a PhD in 1990.^[3][4] Her work has appeared in Kalliope,^[5] Atlanta Review, The Formalist,^[6] Iambs and Trochees, Arion,^[7] Measure, The Classical Outlook, Literary Imagination.^[8] 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.^[9]

• 2015 Finalist, PEN Center USA Translation Award^[10]
• 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

• "Deep Cover"; "Desire"; "Hazard", Mezzo Cammin
• "Translations of Latin epigrams by Martial", The Chimaera, January 2008
• "Vanity: On a painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper", Eratosphere
• "Unscripted"; "Raw", Umbrella, Issue 2, 2007
• Translator, Martial, Selected Epigrams, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0299301743
• Daylight Losing Time, Able Muse Press, 2026, ISBN 978-1773491486
• 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

• 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