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| Kathleen Welton |
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Joseph Parisi joined Poetry as Associate Editor in 1976 and was Editor-in-Chief from 1983 to 2003, the longest tenure after that of founder Harriet Monroe. He also served as Executive Director of the magazine’s parent organization, the Modern Poetry Association (now The Poetry Foundation), where he created and directed its many local and national educational programs.
Besides 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women co-edited with Kathleen Welton (published in 2008) and 100 Essential Modern Poems (published in 2005), his other books include the two-volume history-in-letters of POETRY'S first ninety years, Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912-1962 (published in 2002) and The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002 (also 2002; reissued in paper in 2004), co-edited with Stephen Young.
Between the Lines, the concluding volume of the history—covering Poetry’s last four decades to the 90th Anniversary in 2002— was released in the fall of 2006 by the distinguished Chicago publisher, Ivan R. Dee. A frequent speaker here and abroad on modernist literature and American poetry, Parisi holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago. Among his several awards, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, and was elected a By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 2002.
Kathleen Welton is a veteran publishing executive with 30 years of experience in the book publishing industry, including positions in strategic planning, editorial, sales, marketing, and e-commerce. She currently serves as an editor, freelance writer, and publishing consultant on projects for authors and organizations. She works with authors and publishers to create award-winning and best-selling books, series, and Web sites, including the American Bar Association, Adams Media, Dearborn Trade, H&R Block, Morningstar, Random House, and John Wiley & Sons. In 2009, she will serve on the board of directors for the Emily Dickinson International Society as well as edit the EDIS Bulletin.
She has served as Director of Book Publishing for the American Bar Association and Publisher for IDG Books and Dearborn Trade. Kathy is a member of the Academy of American Poets, The Emily Dickinson International Society, IBPA: The Independent Book Publishers Association, the Poetry Center of Chicago, the Poetry Society of America, and the Stanford Alumni Association. She earned a BA degree in English and Italian Literature from Stanford University.
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100 Essential Modern Poems by Women
Presents memorable masterpieces by great women writers, tracing the evolution of the art in English over the past 150 years. This accessible guide is full of wisdom and insights that will delight, engage, and inspire readers—whatever their gender, age or interests. Features such acclaimed artists as Emily Dickinson, Lucille Clifton, Maxine Kumin, Audre Lorde, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Lisel Mueller, Mary Oliver, Linda Pastan, Marge Piercy, Sylvia Plath, Kay Ryan, May Swenson, and many more.
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"The ...poets are splendidly well chosen, as are the poems, creating an unusually useful and pleasurable volume that can serve as both primer and catalyst to further reading."
--Booklist
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Between the Lines: A History of POETRY in Letters, 1962-2002
Compiled and Edited by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young, this book is the fascinating story behind the more than $100 million bequest to Poetry magazine from amateur poet and pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly. It reveals the inside stories of aspiring authors, the inspirations behind classic poems, and the practicalities of publishing. Poets featured in the book include a “who’s who” from T.S. Eliot, Erica Jong, and Rita Dove to Billy Collins, Robert Pinsky, and Mary Oliver.
"These letters to the editors of Poetry magazine show the history of Poetry to be as exciting and tumultuous as the times in which the letters were written. Virtually every prominent American poet--and some from England and Ireland--from the last half of the 20th century wrote to Poetry to submit their poems, put in a good word for friends, or excoriate their enemies. Highly recommended for all libraries."
--Amy K. Weiss, Library Journal
"The constant in Between the Lines is not an important person but a great institution, Poetry itself, as represented by a series of ardent and long-suffering editors. Poetry has been buttered up and dressed down by the best wits and biggest blowhards in American letters, and it has always given as good as it got. Reading this second volume of correspondence, covering the last forty of its ninety years, is so much fun, it feels wrong."
--Kay Ryan
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100 Essential Modern Poems
The greatest poems written in English over the past century, memorable masterpieces to read, reread, and enjoy. Inspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny, poets include W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, John Ashbery, A.R. Ammons, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Sylvia Plath, and Mary Oliver.
"This volume should wind up being used in the very classrooms where appreciation of poetry and creative writing are taught."
--James Brown, Washington Times
"As a rich, concise education in modern poetry this book can scarcely be surpassed."
--Peter Walpole, Virginia Quarterly Review
"The fun’s in the surprises."
--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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The POETRY Anthology: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguised Verse Magazine
Edited by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young, this beautiful collection from Poetry magazine offers the greatest poems of the last century and its greatest poets.
"Superb and invaluable...comprehensive and thrilling...a veritable history of twentieth-century poetry in English."
--Booklist
"Quite marvelous."
--New York Times
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Dear Editor: A History of POETRY in Letters
Poignant, hilarious, and brutally frank, Dear Editor reveals the personalities and untold stories behind the creation of modern poetry. Edited by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young, here are the inside stories, the rivalries between aspiring authors, the inspirations behind classics, the practicalities (and politicking) of publishing. In fascinating anecdotes and literary gossip, scores of poets offer insights into the creative process and their reactions to historic events.
"Here is evidence that a book about, of all things, poets' wranglings with their editors can be smart, valuable, and engaging. Highly recommended for all libraries"
--Scott Hightower, Library Journal
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