Announcement
Poets and poetry have long held special appeal for psychoanalysts. Even more than other scholars, analysts often seem to reach for poetic quotations to fill what Adam Phillips (in Promises, Promises: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Literature) calls “a gap, an aporia, a space often unnoticed … that needs something else.” It seems appropriate, therefore, that International Psychoanalysis should open up regularly a space for poetry in its pages. To that end, we will be featuring, at the beginning of every month, three or four new or previously published poems selected especially to interest and perhaps expand the interest of our wide, diverse readership. Occasionally, we may also include short articles, essays and/ or excerpts from prose about poetry.
We plan to launch our new feature, “Poetry Monday,” in National Poetry Month, on April 7. Please look for it, and let us have your comments.
Irene Willis
Poetry Editor