Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.
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Website: www.poetryfoundation.org

Mission: The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
 

Poetry Magazine: Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry established its reputation early by publishing the first important poems of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, H. D., William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and other now-classic authors. In succeeding decades it has presented—often for the first time—works by virtually every major contemporary poet. With its spirited criticism, imaginative features, and eclectic mix of poets, the magazine has, by common consensus, “reclaimed its place at the center of American poetry.”
 

poetryfoundation.org: poetryfoundation.org is a comprehensive online resource for poetry featuring an archive of more than 8,000 poems by more than 650 classic and contemporary poets. The site also includes the poetry blog "Harriet,"  a poetry bestseller list, leading journalists writing on poetry and poets, poetry videos and podcasts, and the monthly contents of Poetry magazine.
 

Poetry Out Loud: Created in partnership with the NEA, Poetry Out Loud is a national high school recitation contest designed to return great poetry to the classroom. The program annually awards $100,000 in scholarship prizes.
 

Children's Poet Laureate: The Children's Poet Laureate program aims to raise awareness that children have a natural receptivity to poetry and are its most appreciative audience, especially when poems are written specifically for them. Mary Ann Hoberman is currently serving as the nation’s second Children’s Poet Laureate.
 

Poetry Everywhere: An innovative effort to introduce new audiences to a wide selection of great contemporary and classic poetry, the Poetry Everywhere films feature poets reading their own work, animated interpretations of much-loved poems, and celebrities reading personal favorites.
 

Chicago Poetry Tour: The Chicago Poetry Tour is a multimedia tour of poetry written in and about Chicago. The tour features the voices of a range of Chicago poets and personalities past and present, and a variety of neighborhoods and City landmarks, through archival and contemporary recordings of poets and scholars, local musicians, and historic photos. The tour can be experienced online in its entirety and for free at www.poetryfoundation.org.

 

Essential American Poets: The Essential American Poets podcast series features seminal recordings of major American Poets reading from their work, as selected by former Poet Laureate Donald Hall.
 

American Life in Poetry: American Life in Poetry provides newspapers and online publications with a free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems selected and introduced by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.
 

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Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
What is a poet critic? Can a poet be “successful” outside of the academy? If not, why? Who, or what, is upholding the system that creates (or maintains) a hierarchy in the poetry community that sees the academic poet at the peak? Or is there really a peak? Is...
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Chris White
Chris White
I absolutely agree that pretentiousness is abhorrent, but I think it's a word which we need to be extremely careful in using. Too often the term is used only because the worth of a work wasn't grasped in the first place.

I also feel that there is room for both local poets, and the more academic types, why do we need to have an either or situation? Can't we value both?
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Dennis Walker
Dennis Walker
I contain the demons deep inside that long have become my bride....
Fri at 4:01pm
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This past week at Poetry Foundation Jim Behrle published a talk he’d given at St. ...
Fri at 9:52pm · Comment ·
Bonnie Brooks Fangmann
Bonnie Brooks Fangmann
Poetry is an art that has the same ability to move us as music and painting. Being touched by the arts is a fine, sublime human experience, and we are all unique in what moves us.

More of any art form, along with more variety in every art form, allows greater numbers of people to experience this trancendent communication.
Yesterday at 8:24am
Carolyn Frankel-Siegel
Carolyn Frankel-Siegel
Well put!!!!!!
11 hours ago
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
so some say that poetry is dead because it stays within the academic classroom, overlooking how important the classroom is to creating lifelong poetry readers / writers, as well as how important course adoption is to keeping books alive and relevant and in print...
March 10 at 2:39pm · Comment ·
Suzy Fitzgerald
Suzy Fitzgerald
This is a great perspective and very real. When I was in school I hated history, but as I grew older I realized everything is related to history. Lit, politics, language, self expression- if pple don't understand the development and struggles of culture how can pple understand how to create poetry. Finally someone who understands that poetry is not gibberish.
Thu at 9:06pm
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March 10 at 2:39pm · Comment ·
Rebecca Davis
March 10 at 8:05pm
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
Recently Geist Magazine, one of the great Canadian magazines, announced a contest for the best “Jackpine Sonnet.” The Jackpine sonnet was named by Canadian poet Milton Acorn. It...
March 9 at 11:04am · Comment ·
Jeffrey Schmidt
March 9 at 1:55pm
Mark Savage
Mark Savage
Great stuff upon this sticky, dark page.
Rage, rage...
Fri at 12:08am
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March 8 at 5:00pm · Comment ·
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How you can become the most important poet in America overnight.
March 8 at 1:54pm · Comment ·
Leslie D. Hyde
Leslie D. Hyde
Kind of knocks you right out, even as you're laughing, dryly.
March 8 at 2:49pm
Dennis Walker
Dennis Walker
He was a Prince above them all
Who's riches could fill any kings hall
For God favored him with his grace
And in return he knew his place
Than God made man and blessed him so... See More
The Prince could not stand this though
So he tested man to show God so
Man now has fallen from grace
So the Prince felt he secured his place
God cursed man,but favored him so
Now the Princes ego was out of control
For how can God love a flawed man?
For trully he did not understand
The Prince along with his many Angels
Fought against God and his heavenly Angels
For they now embraced the darkness of hate
For they alone have chosen their fate
Now man has come out of the light
As God sent them his son of light
((((smile))) lol
March 9 at 1:26pm
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
In the summer of 2008, I stayed with Jane Sprague and her family in Long Beach, California, where I gave a reading with Rob Halpern for Sprague’s series, Long Beach Notebook. Memorable during the trip was driving with Sprague to LA and passing the ports, which Sprague schooled me about. ...
March 8 at 7:23am · Comment ·
Nini Carter
Nini Carter
geto rezume gotta go get this book
March 8 at 10:18am
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
Photo: Emma Bee Bernstein 1. Ernst Jandl, Bist eulen? 2. William Kentridge – Stereoscope 3. Samuel Beckett – Quadrat 1+2 4. Cheryl Donegan – Refuses 5. V...
March 8 at 7:23am · Comment ·
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
just returned from a weekend in albuquerque where i attended the Native American Literature Symposium (NALS), which is “organized by an independent group of indigenous scholars committed to making a place where Native voices can be heard.” the symposium was held at the Isleta Casino & Resort (ap...
March 8 at 7:23am · Comment ·
Tammy Leigh Rogers Havlik
March 8 at 8:15am
Drucilla Wall
Drucilla Wall
I was there! Thanks for this coverage of a truly worthy conference. Hope to see you next year.
March 8 at 4:34pm
Anna M. Nelson
Anna M. Nelson
I was at the Blood Run panel discussion also, and I thought it was one of the best. Very interesting on Allison encoding her poems. Do you know if that paper on it will be printed anywhere in the future?
Thu at 11:42am
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
There may not be much poetry to read on my iPod, but there is a lot of poetry to listen to. So, if you’re a gym rat, you can take a variety of poetic journeys ranging from recorded readings, to discussions of poetry, to lectures. This is the upside to all of our technological upheaval. ...
March 6 at 12:09pm · Comment ·
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Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine Nominated for a National Magazine Award for Digital Media in the category of Multimedia Feature or Package, recognizing "the imaginative use of interactivity and multimedia in the presentation of a single story or editorial package"!

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Gwendolyn Brooks’s neighborhood library. Union Stock Yards, where Chicago became Carl Sandburg’s “Hog Butcher for the World.” The Green Mill, home of slam poetry. Maxwell Street and Chess Records, inspirations for bluesy poets. Haymarket Square, memorial to the labor movement.
March 4 at 1:41pm · Comment ·
Sarah Anderson Davis
Sarah Anderson Davis
Is your organization only digital?
March 4 at 3:08pm
John Smith
March 4 at 3:21pm
Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine
i heart chapbooks, especially chapbooks made with love. a new project that i am excited about is Calaveras, edited by sara mumolo & alisa heinzman...
March 3 at 9:38pm · Comment ·
Linda Moon
Linda Moon
Beautiful~
March 10 at 3:04pm
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March 3 at 9:38pm · Comment ·
Susan Zimmerman
Susan Zimmerman
And by the way I met someone who said he was turned down regularly by Poetry for something like 14 years. And then accepted and accepted and accepted.
March 4 at 12:45pm
Sarah Anderson Davis
Sarah Anderson Davis
I do not have twitter. How do I submit to you?
March 4 at 3:07pm