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Roberta Spear

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Roberta Spear
Born1948 (1948)
Hanford, California, U.S.
Died2003 (aged 54–55)
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican

Roberta Spear (1948 in Hanford, California – 2003) was an American poet.

Life

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Her work appeared in Field, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The Missouri Review. She lived in Fresno, California.[1]

Awards

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Works

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  • "The Workout", The Atlantic, December 2002
  • "Conversions", Ploughshares, Winter 1988
  • Silks: Poems. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1980.
  • Talking to Water (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985)
  • The pilgrim among us. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8195-1200-0.
  • Philip Levine, ed. (2007). A sweetness rising: new and selected poems. Great Valley Books. ISBN 978-1-59714-063-8.

Anthologies

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References

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  1. ^ "Roberta L. Spear".
  2. ^ "Issues | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007.
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