Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers

The Poetry Society of America presents

Ben Mazer lecturing on Delmore Schwartz' previously unpublished poems

October 7 online

The New Yorker reviews The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz

The Poet Who Took It Personally Delmore Schwartz tried to change poetry, often by putting his own painful life on the page. The cost was that failure felt all the more acute.

This Sunday at 7pm at Unnamable Books in Brooklyn
Delmore Schwartz Double Book Launch

Today the New York Times reviews The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz.

Delmore Schwartz’s Poems Are Like Salt Flicked on the World A new omnibus compiles the poet’s books and unpublished work, including his two-part autobiographical masterpiece, “Genesis.”

Six years in the making, The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz is published today!

We're searching for a new editor for Literary Imagination! Many thanks to Archie Burnett for his many years at the helm. Rosanna Warren and I will help the new editor with the transition. The search committee consists of Rosanna, David Mikics, and Rebecca Rainof.

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Editor, Literary Imagination
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW)

Location: U.S.
Open Date: April 1, 2024
Deadline: August 1, 2024
Start date: January 2025

Description: The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) seeks a new editor, effective January 2025, of its flagship print publication, Literary Imagination. In consultation with the Associate Editors and our anticipated publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press, the editor will plan, prepare, and finalize three issues of Literary Imagination annually. We seek candidates with wide intellectual range and connections to a number of fields, who embrace the journal’s purpose and can lead it effectively. After many years with Oxford University Press, as of January 2025 Literary Imagination anticipates switching to Johns Hopkins University Press as its publisher; thus the editor will have an opportunity to shape this new phase of the journal’s existence.

Literary Imagination is a forum for all those interested in the distinctive nature, uses, and pleasures of literature, from ancient to modern, in all languages. The journal publishes literary criticism and scholarship, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translation, and book reviews. We emphasize attention to ancient and modern foreign literature as well as to works in English.

Qualifications: Profound knowledge and appreciation of literature, demonstrated creative leadership potential, an understanding of the ALSCW and the history of the journal, and a combination of some of the following: a Ph.D. in literature or the humanities, or an MFA; editorial experience; connections with a range of writers; and a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and carry out complex projects.

To Apply: Please send a letter of interest and a CV to Dr. Rebecca Rainof at [email protected]

The next annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers will held at The Catholic University of America, October 17-20. We will start circulating Call for Papers in February.

This year’s conference committee is:

Diana Senechal, ALSCW President
John Burt, Brandeis University
Mary Jo Salter, Johns Hopkins University
Ernest Suarez, Catholic University

Seminars and plenary sessions will be held in historic Caldwell Hall and the Saturday evening banquet will be in O’Connell Hall.

ALSCW

Diana Senechal has accepted the ALSCW Executive Committee's invitation to become our vice president (and president following this year's annual conference). Diana has been a very active and longtime member. She's served on Council for many years and has made great contributions to the organization.

Diana Senechal is the 2011 winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and the author of Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture (2011) and Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies (2018), as well as numerous stories, poems, essays, songs, and translations. Her translations of the Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova are featured in Winter Dialogue (Northwestern University Press, 1997) and The Junction (Bloodaxe, 2008); her translation of Gyula Jenei's poetry collection Always Different: Poems of Memory was published by Deep Vellum in 2022.

Senechal has written and spoken extensively about education and solitude. In 2012, she delivered the principal address at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music; this was followed in 2013 and 2014 by appearances at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Schools of Dance. In April 2014, she took part in a discussion of solitude on BBC World Service's program The Forum.

Senechal began teaching in New York City public schools in 2005. From 2011 to 2016 she led the philosophy program at Columbia Secondary School; as of November 2017, she has been teaching English and civilization at the Varga Katalin Gimnázium in Szolnok, Hungary. She has served on the ALSCW Council since 2013.

David Mikics, President
Ernest Suarez, Executive Director

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