Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an United States poet-critic and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. DuPlessis’s long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected in Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll  (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts  39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004).  Pitch: Drafts 77-95 is forthcoming. She has received Pew Fellowship for Artists, a residency at the Rockefeller Study Center at Bellagio, Italy and a fellowship at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina. Her critical writing includes Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (2006), The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (2006) both from University of Alabama Press, along with Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Earlier work includes Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985) and H.D.: The Career of that Struggle (1986), as well as an edition of  The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990). Her work can be accessed on PENNSound, and her website is http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/duplessis