Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Award-winning poet Rachel Blau DuPlessis, professor emerita of English at Temple University, is also a critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry. She is the author of several critical books, including Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934. DuPlessis is also the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen.