Amy Lowell 150th Anniversary. Scholars Carl Rollyson and Melissa Bradshaw discuss the life and work of Amy Lowell. 

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An award-winning Amy Lowell scholar, Dr. Melissa Bradshaw is editing both print and digital editions of the poet’s never-before collected letters. Professor Bradshaw suggests that she will provide some interesting—sometimes conflict-ridden—details of events in the early years of the New England Poetry Club when Lowell was its first president.

Professor Carl Rollyson is the author of the recently published biography, Amy Lowell Anew. His book presents details of Lowell’s unconventional life and critical reassessment of Lowell’s work and legacy.

Carl Rollyson, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, at Baruch College, CUNY, has published fourteen biographies, including Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography and Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries. In 2020, he published a two volume-biography, The Life of William Faulkner, and The Last Days of Sylvia Plath.  Podcast: A Life in Biography: https://anchor.fm/carl-rollyson; website: carlrollyson.com.

Just published: Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1. Volume 2 is forthcoming in August 2024. Also forthcoming: The Making of Sylvia Plath, William Faulkner On and Off the Page: Essays in Biographical Criticism, and Ronald Colman: Hollywood’s Gentleman Hero.

Melissa Bradshaw teaches writing, pedagogy, and literary and cultural studies at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on the cultural rhetorics that inform our understanding of powerful public women. She has published extensively on Amy Lowell, co-editing a volume of her poems as well as a volume of scholarly essays about her. Her book, Amy Lowell, Diva Poet won the 2011 MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. She has also published on poets Edith Sitwell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Denise Levertov, and on divas more generally. She is currently working on The Selected Letters of Amy Lowell, and directs the Amy Lowell Letters Project, a critical digital edition of Lowell’s collected letters, for which she was awarded an NEH-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Digital Publication. Read more about the letters project at melissabradshaw.org/amy-lowell-letters-project/