STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is a professor of English at the University of California at Riverside. He is the author of "Robert Lowell: Life and Art "and "Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words "and the co-editor of books on Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. CAMILLE ROMAN is an associate professor of English, American studies, and Women's studies at Washington State University. She has published a dozen books on women and language, American music, and Elizabeth Bishop as well as essays on Robert Frost, Billie Holiday, Edna Millay, Amy Lowell, and Louise Bogan. She is a president-elect of the Robert Frost Society. THOMAS TRAVISANO is a professor of English at Hartwick College. He is the author of "Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development" and "Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aestheti"c and the co-editor of "Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers."