How To Spend $100 Million

The Chicago-based Poetry Foundation has finally announced a plan for how it will spend the $100 million bequest which was dropped in its lap two years ago by pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly. The foundation’s new initiatives will include a national study to determine current public attitudes towards poetry, an “online, electronic anthology of poetry, available to the public at no cost,” and the creation of two new annual cash prizes recognizing overlooked poets and humor in verse.