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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Print the best poetry written today, in whatever style, genre or approach.” Those were the ambitious words written 100 years ago by Harriet Monroe when she founded Poetry, now the oldest monthly ...