New Era For Poetry Magazine

A new era is beginning at Chicago-based Poetry Magazine. “After twenty years as editor, Joseph Parisi is stepping down to become executive director of the new Poetry Foundation, established through a recent bequest of around one hundred and fifty million dollars from pharmaceuticals heiress, Ruth Lilly. Poetry’s new editor is Christian Wiman. He’s 36 years old and his poems and essays appeared frequently in the magazine.” The magazine gets 90,000 poetry submissions each year.