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The
Southern Review Welcomes New Book Review Editor
Beth Bachmann, poet and lecturer in the English
Department at Vanderbilt University, has joined The Southern
Review as book review editor. Working from her home in Nashville,
Bachmann will coordinate with Editor Bret Lott all reviews, beginning
with the magazine’s special winter 2007 “Writing in
the South” issue.
In this day of shrinking book review space
in newspapers and magazines, The Southern Review believes
that people need, now more than ever, forums in which books are
discussed. One of the most important purposes a literary journal
has is to serve as a place where books are talked about, and Lott
set a goal to create such a section when he came to The Southern
Review—a section he knew would be a tremendous asset
to the readers of the journal.
When asked how Bachmann came to be the new
book review editor for The Southern Review, Lott responded,
“She is a terrific poet whose work we admire. Her poems featured
in my inaugural issue as editor in the winter of 2005 are some of
the strongest in that number, and when she turned in a wonderfully
elegant and sharp and intelligent omnibus review for our spring
2006 issue, I was certain she would be the right person for the
job of putting together a review section. It is a perfect match,
and I'm glad she’s decided to lend her talents to The
Southern Review.”
Bachmann’s poems have recently appeared
or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review,
Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals.
Her work that appeared in the winter 2005 issue of The Southern
Review was reprinted in Best New Poets 2005. She was
the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for the 2004 Sewanee
Writers’ Conference and was winner of the 2004 American Poet
Prize, sponsored by The American Poetry Journal.
For information on sending review copies to Bachmann, contact The
Southern Review by phone, (225) 578-5108, or email, southernreview@lsu.edu.
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