An Interview With Poet John Barr
by Kevin Larimer
Six months ago, John Barr was named president of the Poetry Foundation. While many poets had never heard of the former Wall Street investment banker (although he is the author of six books of poetry and served on the board of directors of Yaddo as well as that of the Poetry Society of America) many are now acutely aware of the leader of the organization that received a pledge of $100 million over the next thirty years from pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly.
Joseph Parisi Resigns From Poetry Foundation
by Staff
Joseph Parisi recently resigned as executive director of publications and programs of the Poetry Foundation, formerly known as the Modern Poetry Association, the publisher of Poetry magazine. Parisi, who was editor of the 91-year-old literary magazine for twenty years, was named executive director of the foundation in June.
Poetry Foundation Gets a Dose of Wall Street
by Staff
The Chicago-based Poetry Foundation, formerly known as the Modern Poetry Association, the publisher of Poetry magazine, recently named John Barr as its president. Barr, a founder and managing director of SG Barr Devlin Associates, an investment banking firm in New York City, is also a published poet and a president emeritus of the nonprofit Poetry Society of America.
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Publisher of Poetry Receives $100 Million From Heir to Lilly Fortune
The Modern Poetry Association, publisher of Poetry, the 90-year-old literary magazine based in Chicago, is the recipient of what could be the largest single donation ever made to a nonprofit literary organization.
Ruth Lilly, the heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune (think Prozac), donated $100 million to the MPA on October 18. Poetry, the monthly journal edited by Joseph Parisi, has published the work of luminaries such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, and Marianne Moore since it was founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912.
The MPA will change its nonprofit status to a private operating foundation in 2003.
