According to my scanning of the volumes, the 1917 edition is the first one to include African American writers. Prior to that year, the anthologies were limited to white poets.

confusing punctuation.

Maybe change to:

The Mantled referred to in the title and addressed as "they" in the poem are "colored people."

rep. Maybe just say which issue.

a bit mind boggling. Would anything be lost if you trimmed it to: "does the reader have to the text of the poem"?

make sense of their differences?

Seems like the answer to how to attend to them is quite obvious: pay attention to them!

to avoid overuse of claim, rephrase:

Later that year, William Stanley Braithwaite reprinted the Crisis version of the poem in his 1917 Anthology of Magazine Verse.

editorial interventions

But wait: for a black woman to claim conventional feminine and material feelings and ideals is actually a daring defiance of race conventions (as that earlier awful Williams quotation shows: black women and men were considered outside the categories of "woman" and "man"). To claim gender conventions is to defy race conventions, no?

why "almost" anagogical (a word I had to look up, which could use some clarification, since you don't seem to be talking about spiritual matters).

Johnson. [otherwise "she" could refer to Churchill]

I'm wondering if, in this section, you'd be better off just comparing Shall I Say in the Crisis to Prufrock on Poetry. It would be more efficient and prepare for your argument about different modernities, without stealing the thunder of the How to read a Poem section. I think that the important lesson in this section is that Johnson, read out of context, seems simple and conventional, but read in context becomes a more complex figure. In contrast, Eliot is complex on the page, even in his original publication context, which isolated the poem anyway.

is the horse in a dreamlike state?

weird citation.

Why not include a facsimile of her poem next to the facsimile of Prufrock?

Can we see the poem? It's hard to understand the comparison without being able to read the first stanza.

This letter is certainly damning, but it doesn't suggest that he thinks she's trite. Maybe requote the passage above and say that while he publicly described her work as "simple and sometimes trite," he was privately more damning, writing in a letter of recommendation: "She is erratic..."

seeking reinforcement for their own stereotypical portrayals of black men as...

seems like you've already got a strong answer to this question, so why go backwards? Might be better to say: to appreciate GDJ as a poet, we must read her in the contexts in which she published. In these contexts, what appears conventional proves to be a more complex grappling with intersectional constraints that characterize her experience of modernity.

eliminate cap on poet

not sure you need the "somewhat" qualifier. It is reductive.

consider moving up to epigraph position or just after you quote this sentence.

Beautifully stated! Put a version of this sentence at the end of the Bibliographic codes section, in the place of the claim to access the "true intended meaning."

can you provide a bit more context? When did he write this and where? Who was he?

seems like you should reverse the chronology and have newborns first and change second clause to"fear of their children facing discrimination, violence, and even lynching."

is the boldface in the original? If not, add a parenthetical that says (emphasis added).

Again, I think the diagram deserves more than a link--an actual caption acknowledging its author. And while I suggested that you maintain the b & w and bronze aesthetic of the site, I think the color diagram worked better. In black and white, it renders the disable almost invisible.

I think Giovana deserves at least a caption for this animated spoken word poem, if not explicit introduction and acknowledgment. The citation at the bottom of the page seems like an insufficient acknowledgment.

Possibly also center and even enlarge the video frame to make it parallel to the size and location of the New Yorker comic.

ah, the thorny issue of intention. I think this is a red herring. What strikes me as most promising about reading bibliographic codes is not their potential to unearth the true, intended meaning (does the author even know? is that the only valid meaning?), but its potential to bring to light complexity and innovation in her poetry that might be overlooked if the poems were read merely as linguistic objects.

I'm not sure you can separate the author's own work from these pressures, but ok...

missing space

also possibly change "adversarial atmosphere of a black and female poet" to "adversarial conditions faced by black and female poets."

historical context?

Also, maybe you can restate this so you're not attacking a straw man. I think a stronger transition might be something like: Bornstein's methodology is especially effective for re-reading a poet like Georgia Douglas Johnson. When her poems are isolated and read solely for their linguistic codes, they may seem conventional and even unoriginal. But when read in the context of their bibliographic codes, the poems generate more complex meanings, drawing attention to the intersectional demands of race, class, and gender that she had to negotiate. As an African American female writer...

Thanks for introducing me to Dettmar's critique of Bornstein. I like the way the sense of debate enlivens this discussion, though this paragraph seems a bit wordy and repetitive. It might be condensed to say something like: Dettmar criticizes Bornstein for lackin originality and for underestimating the value of well-edited anthologies: [emperor's new clothes quotation]. But if Bornstein's argument isn't original, it has the virtue of compiling a set of theories to produce a practical methodology that helps us read poems and appreciate poems whose complexity does not lie solely in their material contexts. [this kind of statement would lead smoothly to your next section]

cut the comma

cut the commas

This last phrase dangles. Possibly revise to say: Literature is most fully understood not merely as words on a page, but as a collaboration between those linguistic codes and the bibliographic codes that anchor them in more complex, material, and historical contexts.

change to (qtd in Bornstein 7)

This "begs the question" is a cliche that is used in ways that don't reflect it's actual meaning. Can you rephrase this sentence without relying on a cliche? I'm not sure why our tendency to focus on linguistic codes leads to the question about self-reflexivity. What do you mean by self-reflexive? I think you may mean autonomous, independent, and self-bounded.

But she did have trouble getting her work published during this time, no?

This sentence lacks a period. Also would make more sense if revised to say: Her dedication to her family, especially to supporting her son's education, sheds light on why motherhood is such a prevalent theme in her poetry.

change to (qtd in Shafer 231). i.e. eliminate caps and period after qtd

delete this comma

Propelled by? Energized by? "Building off" gives agency to "her literary career," which is not a sentient agent of action.

high standards?

missing period after B.

insert: she was born...

would be a good idea to cite the scholars, at least in a parenthetical, though you could give them more credit by saying something like: Although scholars such as Gloria Hull and Claudia Tate have attempted to elevate her status and claim her originality...

no comma

weird punctuation

Is this really the case, or are you the pioneers in bringing the theory to bear on modernist periodical studies? I would take this phrase out and just say: as periodical studies grows and the modernist canon expands,...

capitalization unnecessary

Missing punctuation and citation.

I still think this sentence is misleading. The early Crisis didn't compete with Fire!! which didn't even appear until after the Crisis had been in print for a decade and a half!!

see comment below.

Maybe revise to maintain present tense, e.g.:

like when a picture of a child appears...

and suddenly the words no longer speak by themselves.

bibliographic codes...make a multitude [revise for plural verb]

Also I wonder if the codes themselves can make value judgments. Maybe they can imply or can elicit value judgments, but codes aren't sentient beings!

see above comment

see note above on this section (I just figured out how to highlight).

Abstract typos:

1. art and politics [add s to politic]
2. no comma after But we don't
3. no cap on canon

When you scroll down to instructions for reading the site, references to ARCHIVES need to be changed to SOURCES.

Not trying to be nit-picky, but the landing pad is where you establish your credibility, so small typos matter!

Great looking website!