Macha Louis Rosenthal (March 14, 1917 – July 21, 1996), known to friends as “Mac,” was born in Washington, DC and taught at New York University. Rosenthal was Director of NYU’s Poetics Institute, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a two-time Guggenheim Fellowship winner. He served as poetry editor for three journals: The Nation, The Humanist, and Present Tense. The author of numerous books of poems and poetry criticism, Rosenthal is perhaps best remembered as the editor of several popular poetry anthologies.
