Alice Quinn
Executive Director
Bio:
Alice Quinn is Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's graduate School of the Arts. She was poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987-2007 and at Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers, from 1976-1986, and she is the editor of Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop. Her articles on and interviews with writers, poets, and artists have appeared in Artforum, the Canadian National Post, The Forward, Poetry Ireland, The New Yorker, and The New Yorker Online, and she is currently at work editing the journals and notebooks of Elizabeth Bishop.
WMC Live
WMC Live #35: Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Alice Quinn. (Original Airdate 4/20/2013)
Poetry Month. Robin celebrates new energy in poetry with Alice Quinn of the Poetry Society of America; Joy Harjo sings a poem; and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove reads from Mother Love. Plus Robin links the Boston bombing to the Senate’s gun vote.
