Reg Saner

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Name Reg Saner Education St. Norbert College		Role Poet

Awards National Poetry Series, Walt Whitman Award Books The four‑cornered falcon, Reaching Keet Seel, The Dawn Collector, Living Large in Nature: A, So This is the Map

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Reg Saner (born 1931, Jacksonville, Illinois) is an American poet.

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Life

He graduated from St. Norbert College, near Green Bay, Wisconsin.

He served as an infantry platoon leader in the Korean War.

He studied at University of Illinois, an received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at University of Florence.

In the early 1960s he married Anne.

From September 1962, to December 1998, he taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Awards

1975 Walt Whitman Award

1981 National Poetry Series open competition

1983 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts

1998 Wallace Stegner award

1999 Boulder, Colorado city's first poet laureate

Poetry

Climbing into the roots: poems. Harper & Row. 1976. ISBN 978-0-06-013762-5.

So This Is the Map. Random House. 1981. ISBN 978-0-394-51668-4.

Essay On Air. Ohio Review. 1984. ISBN 978-0-942148-03-9.

Red Letters (1981)

Non-fiction

"Soldier Poets, a Gadfly, and the Long-Haired Persian" (PDF). WLA Journal. Fall–Winter 2000.

The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene. Johns Hopkins. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8018-4449-2. (Kodansha paperback, 1994)

Reaching Keet Seel: Ruin’s Echo & the Anasazi (University Press of Utah, 1998)

The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World Center for American Places 2005

Anthologies

Lorrie Goldensohn, ed. (2006). American war poetry: an anthology. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13310-4.

Short Takes (Norton, 2005)

Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terrorism (Persea, 2004)

Poetry Comes Up Where It Can (University of Utah Press, 2000)

Orpheus & Company (University Press of New England, 1999)

Generations. Penguin. 1998. ISBN 978-0-14-058784-5.

References

Reg Saner Wikipedia

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