Poetry (magazine)
Monthly American poetry publication / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Poetry (magazine)?
Summarize this article for a 10 years old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
Poetry (founded as Poetry: A Magazine of Verse) has been published in Chicago since 1912. It is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Founded by Harriet Monroe, it is now published by the Poetry Foundation. In 2007 the magazine had a circulation of 30,000, and printed 300 poems per year out of approximately 100,000 submissions.[1][2] It is sometimes referred to as Poetry—Chicago.
![]() April 2008 cover | |
Editor | Adrian Matejka |
---|---|
Former editors | Harriet Monroe (1912–36) Morton Dauwen Zabel (1936-37) George Dillon (1937-42) (group) (1942-49) Hayden Carruth (1949-50) Karl Shapiro (1950-55) Henry Rago (1955-69) Daryl Hine (1969-77) John Frederick Nims (1978–83) Joseph Parisi (1983-2003) Christian Wiman (2003-2013) Don Share (2013-2020) (guest editors) (2020-2022) |
Categories | Poetry |
Frequency | Monthly |
Circulation | 30,000 |
Founder | Harriet Monroe |
First issue | October 1912 |
Company | The Poetry Foundation |
Country | United States |
Based in | Chicago |
Language | English |
Website | www |
ISSN | 0032-2032 |
Poetry has been financed since 2003 with a $200 million bequest from Ruth Lilly.