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September 21, 2007
New Gatekeeper of Poetry at 'The New Yorker' Will Be Princeton Professor
Want to publish an ode in The New Yorker? Don’t send it to the longtime poetry editor Alice Quinn anymore. As of November, the Irish-born poet and Princeton professor Paul Muldoon will be taking over one of the most powerful positions in American poetry. Mr. Muldoon, chairman of Princeton’s Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, counts 10 books of verse and a Pulitzer Prize (for his 2002 collection Moy Sand and Gravel) among his laurels.
The selection of Mr. Muldoon does not represent “some sort of radical aesthetic or theoretical shift,” The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, told The New York Times. “It’s not as if we went from a structuralist to a poststructuralist or a Beat to a conservative.”
The poet’s East Coast location as well as his creative record appear to have helped his candidacy. “It’s not just a matter of picking the best poet you can think of,” Mr. Remnick said. “It’s also somebody who would know how to be in touch with an enormous range of poets, and that narrows it down a little bit more. And also somebody who’s not in Alaska.” —Jennifer Howard
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Why not in Alaska? I was in Barrow in June (with Auden in my suitcase, as it happens) and my e-mail and web access worked fine at the Top of The World Hotel. The notion that a person writing, or editing, general-interest material needs to be in a particular location sounds a bit Eisenhower.
— Alan Contreras Sep 21, 04:03 PM #
As an Alaskan, a New Yorker subscriber, and a teacher of poetry, I can testify that all of these are compatible. We regularly communicate with and visit the rest of the planet.
— Judith Moore Sep 21, 09:40 PM #