Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, scholar/critic, and collagist whose notable long poem Drafts is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in May 2025. CHAX Press published her Selected Poems 1980–2020 in 2022. Other recent books include A Long Essay on the Long Poem from University of Alabama Press (2023) and a fierce poetic response to 2020, Daykeeping (Selva Oscura, 2023). In her career as a poet-critic, she has written extensively on gender, poetry, and both feminist and objectivist poetics, including a classic gender trilogy The Pink Guitar, Blue Studios, and Purple Passages. Her considerable work on Objectivist poetry and poetics includes her pioneering editing of The Selected Letters of George Oppen. Among her several awards are a residency at Bellagio, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a year at the National Humanities Center. Poetry by DuPlessis in translation includes books in French, Italian, and Russian, and individual works and chapbooks appearing in German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her website is www.rachelblauduplessis.net; all Drafts are available recorded here at PennSound.