New 'Paris Review' Poetry Editor Vijay Seshadri Has Hope For The Next Generation
Vijay Seshadri has been named the twelfth poetry editor ofThe Paris Review. He says he sees a resurgence in American poetry right now, and a new recognition of different lives and experiences.
As literary magazines go, The Paris Review is nonpareil. Founded in 1953, the quarterly has upheld a sacred space for what novelist William Styron called "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good" in an editorial statement for the Review's inaugural issue.
This past August, poet Vijay Seshadri as the s 12th poetry editor. Seshadri — like Styron — is a Pulitzer Prize winner, for his poetry collection and Styron's words are back in my mind as I sit down with him for an interview.
