birth_place awards nationality birth_date genre image article_title name alma_mater
chillicothe , ohio o. series award b. hardison , jr. poetry prize national poetry american 1969 poetry juliana spahr 6044.jpg juliana spahr
 juliana spahr bard of new york college university at buffalo , the state university
juliana spahr

juliana spahr -lrb- born 1969 -rrb- is an american poet , critic , and editor .
she is the recipient of the 2009 hardison poetry prize awarded by the folger shakespeare library to honor a u.s. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring .
both spahr 's critical and scholarly studies , i.e. , `` everybody 's autonomy : connective reading and collective identity '' -lrb- 2001 -rrb- , and her poetry have shown spahr 's commitment to fostering a `` value of reading '' as a communal , democratic , open process .
her work therefore `` distinguishes itself because she writes poems for which her critical work calls . ''
in addition to teaching and writing poetry , spahr is also an active editor .
spahr received the national poetry series award for her first collection of poetry , `` response '' -lrb- 1996 -rrb- .
