Newest Release
On Earth...
These poems were born in the ups and downs of the “here and now”: hot air balloon rides, an afternoon jog, the everyday beauty of the natural world, yoga, Impressionist art, a global pandemic, and the inadequacy of words. And yet, these poems are ever looking forward to when the “there and then” joins the “here and now,” on Earth.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
"Her precise delineations of the natural world; and her lively wit and playful humor. One cannot help but be profoundly moved."
—Catherine Chandler, Winner of the Richard Wilbur award
Awards
2022
On Earth....(Resource Publications, 2022) is the winner of the 2025 American Legacy Book Award for Poetry (Religious).
2021
“The Messenger,” a sonnet crown, won the Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Contest Award in 2021.
2016
The Price of Pomegranates was scored by Jerome Malek and staged in workshop performance at Writing the Rockies, a conference at Western University, on July 22, 2016.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Susan Spear's new collection of poems, Beyond All Bearing, encompasses matters of compassion, love, and human loss with insight and grace. Several of them are fearlessly experimental . . . and many are admirably rendered in traditional forms.
--Marilyn L. Taylor, Wisconsin Poet Laureate