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

Life[edit]

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

Awards[edit]

• Ingram Merrill Fellowship^[2]
• 1979 National Poetry Series

Works[edit]

• "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[edit]

• Stan Yogi, ed. (1996). "Some Voices". Highway 99: a literary journey through California's Great Central Valley. Heyday Books. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-930588-82-3. Roberta Spear.
• Dave Smith; David Bottoms, eds. (1985). The Morrow anthology of younger American poets. Photographer David Bottoms. Quill. ISBN 978-0-688-03450-4.
• Christopher Buckley; David Oliveira; M. L. Williams, eds. (2001). How much earth: the Fresno poets. Roundhouse Press. ISBN 978-0-9666691-7-6.
• Michael Collier, ed. (1995). "Chestnuts for Verdi". The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-1229-1.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• "Roberta Spear (1948-2003)", The Washington Post, June 1, 2003
• "Article: Roberta Spear (1948-2003)", The Washington Post