Charlie Rose

Guests: Alice Quinn RSS

2006:

1. 

   An appreciation of poet Elizabeth Bishop

   with Alice Quinn and David Orr on Apr 28, 2006

   Duration

   22 min

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Alice Quinn is the poetry editor at “The New Yorker,” a position she has held since 1987. Before that, she was poetry editor at Alfred A. Knopf from 1976-86. She teaches at Columbia University’s graduate School of the Arts and is the Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America. She has written and edited several books including “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments.”

Source - The Oxford student Compass http://www.oxfordwriting.org.uk/events/alice_quinn_poetry_editor_of_the_new_yorker_speaking_on_elizabeth_bishop_monday_22nd