Chekhov's Mistress
New Poetry Editors at The Paris Review
The Paris Review is changing more than just its managing editor, its location and its cover. According to C. Dale Young, the poetry editor of The New England Review, The Paris Review is replacing Richard Howard with two poetry editors, Charles Simic and Meghan O’Rourke. He didn’t mention if this change is in effect for issue #174, scheduled to arrive on September 1st, but my guess is yes since the two are listed on the magazine’s masthead on the Website.
Meghan O’Rourke is Slate’s (see link for a list of her latest articles, plus a piece on Sylvia Plath) culture editor and was rumored to have been a front-runner for the job of editor, which Philip Gourevitch won last March. She has a poem in the latest (September) issue of Poetry Magazine.
Charles Simic, originally from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, emigrated from his home country to the U.S. in 1954 at the age of 16. He is a Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and a well known poet, essayist and translator. In fact, he was recently the subject of a Paris Review interview (excerpt only). His latest book of new poems is My Noiseless Entourage.
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Though Howard’s tenure has bought lots of new voices to light, I think the change will serve the magazine well. I suspect that O’Rourke and Simic will bring a refreshingly new sensibility to the magazine.
– Patry (09/06 at 11:35 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: August 29, 2005
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