Staff
Alice Quinn
Executive Director
Alice Quinn is Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America and an adjunct professor at Columbia University's graduate School of the Arts. She was poetry editor at The New Yorker from 1987-2007 and at Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers, from 1976-1986, and she is the editor of Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments by Elizabeth Bishop. Her articles on and interviews with writers, poets, and artists have appeared in Artforum, the Canadian National Post, The Forward, Poetry Ireland, The New Yorker, and The New Yorker Online, and she is currently at work editing the journals and notebooks of Elizabeth Bishop.
Robert N. Casper
Programs Director
Robert N. Casper is the Programs Director of the Poetry Society of America. He is also the Publisher of the literary magazine jubilat and the co-founder of the jubilat/Jones Reading Series in Amherst, Massachusetts. A board member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, where he worked as Membership Director, he also serves as the Poetry Chair for the Brooklyn Book Festival.
Brett Fletcher Lauer
Managing Director
Aimee Walker
Development Director
Aimee Walker, Development Director, has been a fundraiser since 2001, working to grow and diversify income for a variety of organizations. She has held development positions at Free Arts NYC, a local arts non-profit, the Applied Research Center, a national racial justice group, as well as the literary organization Poet's House. She is currently the Vice President of the Board of Directors for InTheFray, a progressive online magazine. Her poems have appeared in Heliotrope, The Paris Review, Rattapallax, and the Grolier Poetry Prize anthology.
Florencia Varela
Membership Coordinator
Florencia Varela is the Membership Coordinator of the Poetry Society of America. A graduate of Columbia University's MFA program, she currently teaches at Wood Tobe-Coburn School. Her poems have appeared in Diagram, Drunken Boat, Western Humanities, and elsewhere.
