The Poetry Foundation began its year-long celebration of Poetry magazine’s 110th anniversary last month by honoring 11 legendary poets with a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize—one of the largest and most ...

NEW YORK – Poetry magazine, one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications, will for the first time have a Black editor. Adrian Matejka, an educator, former state laureate of ...

Joe Parisi, who for 20 years ran Poetry Magazine, is a short, sad-eyed man with the kind of low, detached voice that makes all the world seem a droll conspiracy. Parisi loves to tell stories and the ...

In 2002, Poetry Magazine received $100 million from Ruth Lilly, whose poems were regularly rejected by the publication. A year later, some were wondering if the Chicago-based magazine would survive ...

2002-11-19 04:00:00 PDT Chicago-- Growing up in a secretive family of almost unfathomable wealth, driven to school by Pinkerton guards who took a different route each day to throw off would-be ...

This is a question that I have been asking most of my life, since encountering poetry as a child and later in classrooms; in various taverns large and small and at the Green Mill where Marc Smith ...

Thirteen years ago Dana Gioia wrote in The Atlantic Monthly that poetry had ceased to be a part of the public conversation. All the hopeful signs—the popularity of graduate creative-writing programs, ...

This undated image shows Adrian Matejka, an educator, former state laureate of Indiana and prize-winning poet who was named editor of Poetry magazine. (Polina Osherov via AP) (Polina Osherov) NEW YORK ...

Poetry magazine, one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications, will for the first time have a Black editor. Adrian Matejka, an educator, former state laureate of Indiana and ...