Rachel Blau DuPlessis's The Complete Drafts (Coffee House Press, 2025) has recently received a strong assessment from Paul Jaussen in Chicago Review. Secular Ex Votos (including the work here) is a short book of collage-aphorisms declaring gratitude.

Because Alice Notley had become interested in the epic genre and was at that time loosely in the Buffalo milieu, when Jack Clarke asked her to contribute to the Olsonic pamphlet project the Curriculum of the Soul, she significantly chose Homer’s Art as her commission.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis, born in Brooklyn, is author of Drafts appearing from Coffee House Press, May 2025, and of the on-going Traces, with Days. She lives in Philadelphia. Her website is www.rachelblauduplessis.net and all Drafts are available recorded at www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/DuPlessis.php.