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The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture. It was formed from ''Poetry'' magazine, which it continues to publish, with a 2003 gift of $200 million from philanthropist Ruth Lilly. According to the foundation's Web site, it is "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."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About The Poetry Foundation )〕 In partial furtherance of this objective, the Foundation runs a blog called ''Harriet'' (). Poets who have blogged at ''Harriet'' on behalf of The Poetry Foundation include Ange Mlinko, Christian Bök, Stephen Burt, and Rigoberto González. In addition, the Foundation provides several awards for poets and poetry. It also hosts seminars, readings, exhibitions, and a poetry library. The Poetry Foundation is a non-profit, charitable, 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are tax-deductible.〔 ==History== The foundation is the successor to the ''Modern Poetry Association'' (previous publisher of ''Poetry'' magazine), which was founded in 1941.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Poetry Foundation: History and Misison )〕 The magazine, itself, was started in 1912 by Harriet Monroe. Monroe was its first publisher, and an art critic for the Chicago Tribune. Today, the Poetry Foundation is one of the largest literary foundations in the world.〔 In 2003, ''Poetry'' magazine received a grant from the estate of Ruth Lilly originally said to be worth over $100 million, but which grew to be about $200 million when it was given out. The grant added to her already substantial prior contributions. The magazine learned in 2001 that it would be getting the grant. Before announcing the gift, the magazine waited a year and reconfigured its governing board, which had been concerned with fund-raising. The foundation was created, and Joseph Parisi, who had been editor of the magazine for two decades, volunteered to head the new organization. Christian Wiman, a young critic and poet, succeeded to the editorship in 2003. Parisi resigned from the foundation after a few months.〔 The new board used a recruiting agency to find John Barr, a former executive and published poet, to head the foundation.〔 Robert Polito replaced Barr in 2013. In July 2015 Henry S. Bienen was named Interim President. 〔http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/press/2015/186510〕 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 Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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