From the Editor

Richard Kopley and Paul Lewis, cochairs of the PSA's Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, are busy with the plans for the 2021 conference to be held in Boston at the historic Omni Parker House Hotel founded in 1854. The keynote speaker for the conference will be Marilynne Robinson. Her essay on Poe in the February 5, 2015, issue of the New York Review of Books begins with this sentence: "Edgar Allan Poe was and is a turbulence, an anomaly among the major American writers of his period, an anomaly to this day." She also had this to say on the bicentennial of Poe's birth: "I could not stop memorizing his poems. To say them and hear them taught me to feel the deeper coherences of language, as if words ordered by their sounds and suggestions were a charm that opened more meaning than words contain" (Baltimore Sun, January 19, 2009). Phillip Philips, chair of the conference program committee, will be the one receiving submissions for papers and panels; see the CFP on the back cover of this issue.

In early February, the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Spain will hold its Second International Conference, "Beyond Childhood and Adolescence: Growing with Edgar Allan Poe." The conference will be at the University of Almeria, located in southern Spain; the CFP appeared in the last issue. The keynote speakers will be Gerald Kennedy and David Roas Deus. For more information, see http://www2.ual.es/eapsa2020/index.php/almeria/.

I want to take this opportunity to give special thanks to the editorial board members for their time and expertise in responding to the many essays we get; triple-blind review requires much work on their part, and we have been receiving many submissions recently—which, of course, we welcome!

At the PSA Executive Board meeting at the ALA in May, it was decided to add a book review editor for the journal. We want to thank John Martin, scholarly communication librarian at the University of North Texas, for taking on this role beginning with the Spring 2020 issue. He has established a new set of guidelines for book reviews, and these will appear in the next issue of the journal as well as on the PSA listserv.