“Some poets play the spoons, but Schaer plays the knives.”
ABOUT
Robin Beth Schaer is a poet and essayist. She teaches writing in Ohio. She worked as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty, a 180-foot ship lost in Hurricane Sandy.
WRITING
Schaer's poetry collection, Shipbreaking, was published in 2015 by Anhinga Press. Naufragio, a bilingual edition of her work, was published in 2024 by Komorebi Ediciones. Her current project on art and atrocity was included on the Creative Capital 2022 Shortlist.
NEWS
Robin Beth Schaer received a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts in 2021 and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2020. Both publicly-funded awards support an artist's growth and development.
RECENT PUBLICATION
Poem by Robin Beth Schaer selected by U.S. :Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for the Poem -a-day Project from the Academy of American Poets
CONTACT
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