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In her preface to “Inhabit the Poem,” she writes that the “popular belief that ‘gatekeepers’—publishers, university lecturers, anthologists, and advertisers—create the longevity of the authors we call ‘canonical’ is false.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

“I would prefer it if the textbook compilers and the anthologists would assume that I had written a few other poems.”

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

The anthologists are another reason for excitement: Ann VanderMeer is one of the best-regarded editors in the field – she’s a former editor-in-chief for Weird Tales who now acquires titles for Tor.com.

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2016

As a poet, however, she is virtually forgotten – ignored even – by the 20th century anthologists dedicated to the recovery and re-evaluation of neglected women poets.

From The Guardian • Jul. 19, 2010

No one, for example, to-day regards Jean Ingelow as a great poet, but the anthologists who select her When Sparrows Build or High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, justly accept these poems as poetry.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert