Poetry magazine was founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who believed that poetry deserved its own dedicated publication and a paying market for poets. It was the first magazine in the English-speaking world devoted exclusively to verse, and it published early work by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Langston Hughes — essentially inventing modern American poetry from its editorial offices on the South Side.
More than a century later, Poetry is still published monthly by the Poetry Foundation, still based in Chicago, and still the most prestigious venue for new poetry in the English language. The magazine receives over 150,000 submissions annually and publishes a tiny fraction, maintaining standards that have made its acceptance one of the most coveted achievements in literary publishing.
In 2003, the Poetry Foundation received a $200 million bequest from Ruth Lilly — one of the largest gifts ever made to a literary organization — which transformed the foundation's capacity to support poets through prizes, events, and educational programs while keeping the magazine itself lean, beautiful, and focused on what it has always done best: putting great poems on the page.
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