The Poetry Foundation opened its new home in Chicago last weekend. As it celebrates this achievement, we decided it would be fun to ask for people’s stories about being rejected from the foundation’s ...
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 ...
When Partisan Review was shuttered in 2003, after seven decades of publication, it served as a pointed warning of the dangers facing little magazines. In almost every case, the glory days of a small ...
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 ...
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 ...
The plot elements couldn't be juicier: a wealthy heiress, a little poetry magazine, millions of dollars. What to do? Since it was announced Friday that Poetry magazine will receive a bequest of $100 ...
Poetry magazine is under fire for publishing a sex offender in its special February issue of poems by people “who have experienced incarceration,” as the one of the editors of the volume puts it. The ...
A bedrock principle of the prison abolitionist movement is that you don’t ask an incarcerated person what they’re in for. It’s more than etiquette. To eschew the identity that the punitive state ...
Four issues, unknown contributors, cutting-edge illustrations, no adverts or sponsors. Tom Chatfield talks to the 23-year-old editor of the first British poetry magazine to win international ...