Robin Beth Schaer is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

Biography

Born in 1971, she graduated from

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and

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

, and has taught at

The New School The New School is a Private university, private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for p ...

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-s ...

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational lib ...

and worked at the

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. She is the author of one book of poetry, ''Shipbreaking''. Her work has appeared in ''Rattapallax'', ''Denver Quarterly'', ''Guernica'', ''Painted Bride Quarterly'', and ''Barrow Street'', ''Washington Square''. She currently teaches at

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

and has worked as a deckhand aboard the '' Bounty'', and lived in

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Awards

* Yaddo * Djerassi Resident Artists Program * Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship * Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship

Works

''Shipbreaking'' (Anhinga 2015)"Falling Overboard", on the loss of HMS Bounty during Hurricane Sandy, "Paris Review", November 2012

"Flight Distance", "Tornado", and "Wildfire", "The Awl", October 21. 2010"Insomnia", ''Guernica'', September 2005"Mourning"; "After Mourning", ''Rattapallax''
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Anthologies

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References

External links

"Official Homepage""Three Poems By Robin Beth Schaer", "The Awl""Robin Beth Schaer", ''Fishouse''"Robin Beth Schaer reads “Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art” by John Keats", ''Poets on Poets''
1971 births Living people Colgate University alumni Columbia University alumni Columbia University faculty Cooper Union faculty American women poets 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers The New School faculty {{US-poet-1970s-stub