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Poetry (magazine)
Poetry is an American poetry magazine founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe. Originally titled Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, it is published by the Poetry Foundation. The magazine publishes ten print issues annually and also publishes poetry, prose, translations, and archival material online.
Poetry became one of the most influential English-language poetry magazines of the twentieth century. Encyclopædia Britannica states that, during Monroe's editorship, it "quickly became the world's leading English-language poetry journal" and describes it as "the principal organ for modern poetry of the English-speaking world". Its early issues published work by poets including T. S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, and Rabindranath Tagore. Archival records for the magazine are held by research libraries including the University of Chicago Library and Indiana University's Lilly Library.
In 2002, Ruth Lilly, an heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune and a longtime patron of poetry, gave $100 million to the Modern Poetry Association, the magazine's publisher. The Poetry Foundation was established the following year, and the gift was later reported as worth approximately $200 million. Since 2022, Poetry has been edited by Adrian Matejka, the first Black editor to lead the magazine.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, a poet, critic, and arts writer who wanted a magazine devoted specifically to contemporary poetry. In 1911, Monroe raised financial support for the publication by persuading one hundred Chicagoans to pledge $50 a year for five years.Literary scholar Ann Massa described the plan as "a bold project, if not an unlikely one", noting that the U.S. had not had a journal devoted solely to the publication and criticism of poetry and that Chicago had a reputation as difficult ground for little magazines. The magazine's motto, taken from Walt Whitman, was "to have great poets there must be great audiences too".
Monroe used the first issues to explain the magazine's purpose and editorial independence. In the inaugural issue, she argued that poetry needed "her own place, her own voice", rather than the limited space available in general-interest magazines. The following month, Monroe wrote that "The Open Door will be the policy of this magazine" and said the editors hoped to avoid "entangling alliances with any single class or school". In a later printed appeal to poets, Monroe described the magazine as offering writers "a chance to be heard in their own place", outside the constraints of popular magazines.
The University of Chicago Library notes that Monroe's insistence on paying contributors and establishing an annual prize helped raise the visibility and status of poetry as a literary art. The Modernist Journals Project describes Poetry as both a venue for modern poetry and a forum for debate over the forms and purposes of poetry in the modern age.
The magazine established its reputation in its early years by publishing a wide range of contemporary poets and by becoming a major venue for emerging modernist poetry. Literary scholar Helen Carr describes Poetry as "one of the best known of 'little magazines' of literary modernism" and as a periodical that exemplified the role of small magazines in the formation and dissemination of modernism. Its first issue included poems by Ezra Pound, Helen Dudley, William Vaughn Moody, Arthur Davison Ficke, Grace Hazard Conkling, and Emilia Stuart Lorimer, as well as Monroe's editorial comment "The Motive of the Magazine". Pound later served as the magazine's foreign correspondent, helping connect Monroe's Chicago-based publication to transatlantic literary networks.
In June 1915, Poetry published T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which had been brought to Monroe's attention by Pound. The magazine also published early or important work by writers including H.D., Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, and Rabindranath Tagore. Encyclopædia Britannica identifies the magazine with both the Chicago literary renaissance and Imagism, and describes it as having become "the principal organ for modern poetry of the English-speaking world".
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Poetry (magazine)
Poetry is an American poetry magazine founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe. Originally titled Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, it is published by the Poetry Foundation. The magazine publishes ten print issues annually and also publishes poetry, prose, translations, and archival material online.
Poetry became one of the most influential English-language poetry magazines of the twentieth century. Encyclopædia Britannica states that, during Monroe's editorship, it "quickly became the world's leading English-language poetry journal" and describes it as "the principal organ for modern poetry of the English-speaking world". Its early issues published work by poets including T. S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, and Rabindranath Tagore. Archival records for the magazine are held by research libraries including the University of Chicago Library and Indiana University's Lilly Library.
In 2002, Ruth Lilly, an heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune and a longtime patron of poetry, gave $100 million to the Modern Poetry Association, the magazine's publisher. The Poetry Foundation was established the following year, and the gift was later reported as worth approximately $200 million. Since 2022, Poetry has been edited by Adrian Matejka, the first Black editor to lead the magazine.
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, a poet, critic, and arts writer who wanted a magazine devoted specifically to contemporary poetry. In 1911, Monroe raised financial support for the publication by persuading one hundred Chicagoans to pledge $50 a year for five years.Literary scholar Ann Massa described the plan as "a bold project, if not an unlikely one", noting that the U.S. had not had a journal devoted solely to the publication and criticism of poetry and that Chicago had a reputation as difficult ground for little magazines. The magazine's motto, taken from Walt Whitman, was "to have great poets there must be great audiences too".
Monroe used the first issues to explain the magazine's purpose and editorial independence. In the inaugural issue, she argued that poetry needed "her own place, her own voice", rather than the limited space available in general-interest magazines. The following month, Monroe wrote that "The Open Door will be the policy of this magazine" and said the editors hoped to avoid "entangling alliances with any single class or school". In a later printed appeal to poets, Monroe described the magazine as offering writers "a chance to be heard in their own place", outside the constraints of popular magazines.
The University of Chicago Library notes that Monroe's insistence on paying contributors and establishing an annual prize helped raise the visibility and status of poetry as a literary art. The Modernist Journals Project describes Poetry as both a venue for modern poetry and a forum for debate over the forms and purposes of poetry in the modern age.
The magazine established its reputation in its early years by publishing a wide range of contemporary poets and by becoming a major venue for emerging modernist poetry. Literary scholar Helen Carr describes Poetry as "one of the best known of 'little magazines' of literary modernism" and as a periodical that exemplified the role of small magazines in the formation and dissemination of modernism. Its first issue included poems by Ezra Pound, Helen Dudley, William Vaughn Moody, Arthur Davison Ficke, Grace Hazard Conkling, and Emilia Stuart Lorimer, as well as Monroe's editorial comment "The Motive of the Magazine". Pound later served as the magazine's foreign correspondent, helping connect Monroe's Chicago-based publication to transatlantic literary networks.
In June 1915, Poetry published T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which had been brought to Monroe's attention by Pound. The magazine also published early or important work by writers including H.D., Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, and Rabindranath Tagore. Encyclopædia Britannica identifies the magazine with both the Chicago literary renaissance and Imagism, and describes it as having become "the principal organ for modern poetry of the English-speaking world".