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''Poetry'' (founded as, ''Poetry: A Magazine of Verse''), published in Chicago since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Published by the Poetry Foundation and currently edited by Don Share, the magazine has a circulation of 30,000, and prints 300 poems per year out of approximately 100,000 submissions.〔Goodyear, Dana, ("The Moneyed Muse: What can two hundred million dollars do for poetry?" ), article, ''The New Yorker'', February 19 and February 26 double issue, 2007〕 It is sometimes referred to as ''Poetry—Chicago''. ''Poetry'' has been financed since 2003 with a $200 million bequest from Ruth Lilly. ==History== The magazine was founded in 1912〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.everywritersresource.com/topliterarymagazines.html )〕 by Harriet Monroe, an author who was then working as an art critic for the ''Chicago Tribune''. She wrote at that time:
In a circular she sent to poets, Monroe said the magazine offered:〔 :"First, a chance to be heard in their own place, without the limitations imposed by the popular magazine. In other words, while the ordinary magazines must minister to a large public little interested in poetry, this magazine will appeal to, and it may be hoped, will develop, a public primarily interested in poetry as an art, as the highest, most complete expression of truth and beauty." "In the first decade of its existence, () became the principal organ for modern poetry of the English-speaking world." T. S. Eliot's first professionally published poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," was published in ''Poetry''. ''Prufrock'' was brought to Monroe's attention by early contributor and foreign correspondent, Ezra Pound. The magazine published the early works of H.D., Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Marianne Moore. The magazine discovered such poets as Gwendolyn Brooks, James Merrill, and John Ashbery.〔 Contributors have included, William Butler Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, William Carlos Williams, Joyce Kilmer, Carl Sandburg, Charlotte Wilder, Robert Creeley,〔Poems published in Volume 112, Number 5, August 1968, pp.331-336: Chicago, The Friends, Place, The Puritan Ethos, America, I'll Be Here, Mr. Warner, The Province, and Names.〕 Wallace Stevens,〔The commentary on Stevens's Cy est pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges quotes from Monroe's rejection letter on behalf of the journal.〕 Basil Bunting, Yone Noguchi, Carl Rakosi, Dorothy Richardson, Peter Viereck, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, E. E. Cummings, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Tennessee Williams, Max Michelson〔'Midnight' The Imagist Poem -Modern Poetry in Miniature ed. William Pratt UNO Press 3rd edition 2008 ISBN 9780972814386〕 among others. The magazine was instrumental in launching the Imagist and Objectivist poetic movements. A. R. Ammons once said, "the histories of modern poetry in America and of ''Poetry'' in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable."〔 However, in the early years, East Coast newspapers made fun of the magazine, with one calling the idea "Poetry in Porkopolis".〔 Author and poet Jessica Nelson North was an editor. Henry Rago joined the magazine in 1954 and became editor the following year. Publication in ''Poetry'' is highly selective and consists of three increasingly critical editorial rounds. With a publication rate of submissions at about 1%, the magazine is "one of the most difficult to get (in )". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poetry (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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