Network for New York School Studies Interview with Marjorie Perloff

'poetry is news that stays news': Interview with Marjorie Perloff (Tuesday 11th April 2023). Marjorie Perloff is Professor Emerita of English at Stanford University and Florence R. Scott Professor of English Emerita at the University of Southern California. She’s also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She’s a leading critic of contemporary poetry, and her work has been especially concerned with experimental and avant-garde poetry and relating it to the major currents of modernist and postmodernist activity in the arts, including the visual arts and cultural theory. Marjorie joined us for a conversation that took in analysis, structure, and gossip; writing poetry, writing about poetry, and publishing; New York nostalgia, making connections and gaining distance; taste, subjectivity, and opening out the poetry world; starting late and staying longer; and gender, teaching, and turning students into 'little Gertrude Stein-lets'. You can watch/listen to the interview on our YouTube channel. (Interview by Rona Cran and Yasmine Shamma.)