Erin Kappeler is Assistant Professor of English at Missouri State University. Her articles include “Editing America: Nationalism and the New Poetry” (Modernism/Modernity) and “The ...view moreErin Kappeler is Assistant Professor of English at Missouri State University. Her articles include “Editing America: Nationalism and the New Poetry” (Modernism/Modernity) and “The Georgian Poets and the Genteel Tradition,” with Meredith Martin, in the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Modernist Poetry. She is working on a book manuscript entitled Shaping Free Verse: American Prosody and Poetics 1880-1920 and the NEH-funded project “Everyday Laureates: Community Poetry in New England, 1865-1900.”view less