FROM THE EDITOR

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Short supply of quality paper affected the appearance of our Spring 2022 issue; many of the black-and-white images were muddied and titles in gray appear so faint as to be almost invisible. We’re hoping this issue will be more in keeping with previous production quality, but we may have to be patient. In an article published in March of this year in Publishers Weekly, Michael Seidlinger quotes one of the participants on a panel addressing this particular supply chain problem: “With mills [in the United States] converting their machines from manufacturing paper needed by publishers to producing much more lucrative packaging materials, printers and publishers are all having trouble getting the amount of paper they need. The paper shortage has been made more severe this year because most printers and paper merchants have run dry on their paper reserves. The expanded paper inventories of the past are no more” (“Examining Paper Shortages and Publishing Worker Unrest,” March 24, 2022). Another COVID victim . . .On a happier note, we received positive feedback for our new feature “Critical Reassessments,” and we look forward to future essays. We hope you enjoy Travis Montgomery’s reassessment of Jacobs’s Poe: Journalist and Critic (1969) in this issue. In 2023 Sami Atassi (Indiana University) will take on Daniel Hoffman’s Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe (1971) for the Spring issue, and Isaac Kolding (SUNY Buffalo) will assess Sidney Moss’s Poe’s Literary Battles (1963) for the Fall issue.Poe—again—will take center stage in 2023 with a conference sponsored by the Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association. “‘Through the Veil of the Soul’: Poe and the Pleasures of Art” will be held in Albacete, Spain, October 4–6. The CFP was distributed on the PSA Listserv. We look forward to this conference organized by two of our PSA members—Margarita Rigal-Aragón and Fernando González Moreno. Hope to see many of you there!