Laura Riding was a poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and publisher. While primarily known for the critical works that she co-authored with Robert Graves—A Pamphlet Against Anthologies and A Survey of Modernist Poetry—Riding also left behind an incredibly powerful body of poetry and prose works that, regrettably, remain little read today. These include The Close Chaplet, The Lives of Wives, and The Progress of Stories. Famously rejecting poetry early in her career, she spent the last decades of her life co-writing a theoretical work on linguistics, Rational Meaning, with her husband Schuyler Jackson. She was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1991, the very same year she died.

George Fragopoulos’s poetry has appeared in the journals The Found Poetry Review, House Organ, and Momoware. His translations from the Greek of Manolis Anagnostakis’s poems were published in Fairleigh Dickinson University Press’ Manolis Anagnostakis: Poetry and Politics, Silence and Agency in Post-War Greece. He has published academic articles on the poetry of Olga Broumas, Robert Duncan, George Economou, Bob Kaufman, and Laura (Riding) Jackson. He lives in New York City and is an assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY.