The Hide-and-Seek Muse

Lisa Russ Spaar’s The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry (2013, Drunken Boat Media) collects over fifty of her micro-essays written for the Chronicle of Higher Education Arts & Academe and Brainstorm blogs between 2010 and 2012.

Among those poets whose work is represented and commented upon are nine Warren Wilson MFA faculty: Debra Allbery, David Baker, Michael Collier, Mark Jarman, Laura Kasischke, Heather McHugh, Maurice Manning, Carl Phillips,and Mary Szybist, as well as two alumni: Randall Couch and Meghan O’Rourke.

The book will be available on March 1.