Last week, we took a look at the Paul Laurence Dunbar House in Dayton, Ohio. This week, let’s travel to Chicago to examine the Poetry Foundation.
By the way, I appreciate the poetry spotlight ideas people have sent my way. Keep them coming at robert.brewer@fwmedia.com with the subject line: Poetry Spotlight Idea.
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Poetry, February 2015
Per its website, the Poetry Foundation is a non-profit organization “committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.” It runs the Harriet blog and publishes Poetry magazine, which I’ve covered previously on this blog.
While Poetry was established by Harriet Monroe in 1912, the Poetry Foundation was formed in 2003 with $200 million gifted by philanthropist Ruth Lilly. Before that, Poetry was published by the Modern Poetry Association.
But there’s a lot more to the Poetry Foundation than a magazine. For instance, the Foundation hosts poetry events, shares a wealth of poetry information on their website, give awards to poets, offers a library dedicated to poetry (with a collection of 30,000 volumes), and many other poetry-related activities.
For poetry lovers in the Chicago area, the Poetry Foundation is open Monday through Friday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Address: 61 W. Superior St., Chicago IL 60654.
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Robert Lee Brewer is the editor of Poet’s Market and author of Solving the World’s Problems. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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Check out these other poetic posts:
- Bryan Borland: Poet Interview.
- Collecting Poems Into a Book: 5 Poets Share Their Method.
- WD Poetic Form Challenge: Diminishing Verse.
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