The Poetry Foundation is a United States literary society that seeks to promote poetry and lyricism 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 .
37-678: Its mission, which was updated in 2022, is "to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry." 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 Christian Bök , Stephanie Burt , Wanda Coleman , Kwame Dawes , Linh Dinh , Camille Dungy , Annie Finch , Forrest Gander , Rigoberto González , Cathy Park Hong , Bhanu Kapil , Ange Mlinko , Eileen Myles , Craig Santos Perez , A.E. Stallings , Edwin Torres , and Patricia Smith . In addition,
74-678: A 3000-volume children's section. In addition to the reading room, there are listening booths for poet audio recordings and broadcasts related to poetry and interactive displays. It is open to the public Wednesday through Saturday. The Poetry Out Loud recitation competition was created in 2006 by the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts to increase awareness of poetry through performance and competition. It engages high school students in public speaking and
111-510: A Fool to Love You" by Cornelius Eady. Marta Palombo from Atlanta, Georgia secured second place, while Nicholas Amador of Punahou, Hawaii took third. 2017 - Samara Huggins of Mableton, Georgia was awarded first place after her reading of "Novel" by Arthur Rimbaud . Also successful was second-time national finalist Nicholas Amador of Punahou, Hawaii. Iree Mann from Syosset, New York was third. 2018 - Charleston, South Carolina native Janae Claxton won first place with C.K. Williams ' "The Gaffe." For
148-463: A book that took him seven years to finish. Eunoia consists of univocalic lipograms. The book uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters. In the book's main part, each chapter uses just a single vowel, producing sentences such as this: "Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech." Bök believes that "his book proves that each vowel has its own personality." Edited by Darren Wershler and published by Coach House Books in 2001, Eunoia won
185-403: A gene and then integrated into a cell, causing the cell to "read" this poem, and in reply, the cell builds a protein — one whose sequence of amino acids encodes yet another sonnet (called "Eurydice"). The cell becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem. The gene has so far worked properly in cultures of E. coli , but the intended symbiote
222-469: A poetry library, reading spaces, and free events, all open to the public, and provides office and editorial space for the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine staff. In 2022, the Poetry Foundation instituted a new grants program]with an initial commitment of $ 9 million over the first three years. The grants program is part of the Foundation's commitment to more robustly support the field of poetry and
259-458: A recruiting agency to find John Barr, a former executive and published poet, to head the foundation. Robert Polito , the poet and critic who founded and directed the graduate writing program at the New School , succeeded Barr in 2013 and served until 2015. In December, 2015, Henry S. Bienen , President Emeritus of Northwestern University was named president. Bienen served as the president of
296-462: A semi-final and sends three (formerly four) competitors to the final round. The final nine then recite two poems, and the top three recite a third poem. Judges (who are usually poetry/literary celebrities) select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. The 1st place winner wins $ 20,000, the 2nd place winner wins $ 10,000, and the 3rd place winner wins $ 5,000. The 4th-9th place takes home $ 1,000. All 53 finalists win $ 200 from their state competition, along with
333-574: A standard that all students are held accountable to, while also ensuring that the poetry is not obscene or overly long. 2006 - Jackson Hille of Columbus Alternative High School in Ohio became National Champion. Teal Van Dyck of Bow High School in New Hampshire won second place. Kellie Anae of Mid-Pacific Institute in Hawaii won third place. 2007 - The 2007 National Poetry Out Loud Champion
370-499: A stipend for their high school to purchase poetry books. Contestants have specific criteria for the poems at the state and national levels. All poems must be selected from an online or paper anthology to be eligible for competition. One poem must be pre-20th century, and one must be 25 lines or fewer. One poem can account for both criteria, leaving the second and third poems unrestricted. These rules aim to expose students to poetry that they otherwise may not have been interested in and set
407-476: A successful test run of his “poetic cipher,” meaning that: when implanted in the genome of [the] bacterium, [the] poem (which begins ‘any style of life/ is prim…’) does in fact cause the bacterium to write, in response, its own poem (which begins ‘the faery is rosy/ of glow…’). In 2015, The Xenotext: Book I was published — a work consisting of meditations on both science and poetics (addressing their mythic drives for immortality). This first, "Orphic" volume sets
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#1732783772274444-407: Is D. radiodurans ("the dire seed, immune to radiation") — an extremophile, able to thrive in very inhospitable environments, deadly to most life on Earth. According to Bök from an interview in 2007, the final product will include: a poetic manual that showcases the text of the poem, followed by an artfully designed monograph about the experiment, including, for example, the chemical alphabet for
481-430: Is a sound poet , who has performed an extremely condensed version of the "Ursonate" by Kurt Schwitters . He has created conceptual art , making artist's books from Rubik's Cubes and Lego bricks. He has also worked in science-fiction television by constructing artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry 's Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley 's Amazon . Bök is most famous for writing Eunoia (2001),
518-861: The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2021 . Eunoia won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. Bök's poem "Vowels" was used in the lyrics of a song on the EP A Quick Fix of Melancholy (2003) by the Norwegian band Ulver . In 2006, Christian Bök and his work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet , produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge . On May 31, 2011, The BBC World Service broadcast Bök reading "The Xenotext." Poetry Out Loud The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest
555-633: The 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and sold more than 20,000 copies. Canongate published "Eunoia" in Britain in Oct. 2008. The book was also a bestseller there, reaching #8 on the Top 10 bestselling charts for the year. The Xenotext is an ongoing work of BioArt which claims to be “the first example of ‘living poetry.’” The Xenotext consists of a single sonnet (called "Orpheus"), which gets translated into
592-528: The Children's Poet Laureate) is a two-year appointment to an author of children's poetry. The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is an annual award given for lifetime achievement in poetry to U.S. poets. The Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism is an annual award that seeks to honor an outstanding book-length work of criticism published in the U.S. in the prior calendar year. The Pegasus Award for Service in Poetry , which
629-624: The Light Enter" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper . Columbus, Ohio, and Lawrenceville, New Jersey were also honored by the second and third-place finishers, Lake Wilburn and Natasha Simone Vargas, respectively. 2015 - Reciting " Ode on a Grecian Urn " by John Keats , Maeva Ordaz of Anchorage, Alaska claimed first place. Reciting the same poem, Paris Stroud of Dallas, Georgia took home the second prize. Casey Goggin from Southern Pines, North Carolina placed third. 2016 - Ahkei Togun of Virginia Beach, Virginia won first place with his recitation of "I'm
666-576: The Poetry Foundation from December 2015 until his resignation on June 10, 2020, following criticism of the foundation's support for marginalized artists. In April 2021, the foundation named former Chicago commissioner for cultural affairs, Michelle T. Boone , as its new president. Part of the Lilly bequest was used to build the Poetry Foundation's building in Near North Side, Chicago . The building, designed by John Ronan , opened in 2011. It houses
703-432: The age of 40, who had not yet published a poetry collection in book form; Kristen Tracy won the 2017 award, consisting of $ 10,000 and publication and promotion of her collection Half-Hazard by Graywolf Press . The Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute provides an independent forum to convene discussions about poetry. Poets, scholars, educators and others are invited to share ideas about the intellectual and practical needs of
740-422: The bequest. Before announcing the gift, the magazine waited a year and reconfigured its governing board, which had been concerned with fundraising. 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 succeeded to the editorship in 2003. Parisi resigned from the foundation after a few months. The new board used
777-530: The cipher, the genetic sequence for the poetry, the schematics for the protein, and even a photograph of the microbe, complete with other apparati, such as charts, graphs, images, and essays, all outlining our results. Bök has collaborated with laboratories at the University of Calgary, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Texas (Austin), to realize his design. In 2011, nine years after conceiving The Xenotext, Bök announced that labs had performed
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#1732783772274814-541: The competition begins at the school level, where the students recite one or two poems. The first and sometimes second place winners of each school-level competition attend regional competitions. The finalist(s) from each region attend state-level competitions to perform three poems. Each state winner performs the same three poems in Washington D.C. during the last week of April or the first week of May. Competitors are divided into three groups or regions. Each region holds
851-434: The conceptual groundwork for the second, "Eurydicean" volume, which will document the experiment itself. The Xenotext: Book II remains forthcoming. Since 2017, Bök has been working on a lengthy project of visual poetry, inspired by Suprematist Composition: White on White by Kazimir Malevich . This project has culminated in the publication of a book entitled The Kazimir Effect ( Penteract Press , 2021), listed as one of
888-748: The early 1990s to study for a Ph.D. in English literature at York University , where he encountered a burgeoning literary community that included Steve McCaffery , Christopher Dewdney , and Darren Wershler . Since 2004, he taught at the University of Calgary — but as of 2022, he works as an artist in Melbourne, Australia, and he serves as a Professor (Honorary Appointee) at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia. In 1994, Bök published Crystallography , "a pataphysical encyclopaedia that misreads
925-479: The foundation provides several awards for poets and poetry. It also hosts free workshops, readings, exhibitions, and is home to a 30,000-volume poetry library. The Poetry Foundation is a non-profit, charitable, 501(c)(3) organization. The foundation is the successor to the Modern Poetry Association (previous publisher of Poetry magazine ), which was founded in 1941. The magazine, itself,
962-416: The language of poetics through the conceits of geology ." The Village Voice said of it: "Bök's concise reflections on mirrors, fractals , stones, and ice diabolically change the way you think about language — his, yours — so that what begins as description suddenly seems indistinguishable from the thing itself." Crystallography was reissued in 2003 and was nominated for a Gerald Lampert Award . Bök
999-551: The literary arts in ways that are both more equitable and transparent. The Poetry Foundation hosts a schedule of poetry events that are open to the public, free of charge, and often available in-person and via livestream. Events include poetry readings, writing workshops artist collaborations, and exhibitions. The 30,000-volume library presents a wide selection of modern and contemporary poetry in English or translation. It includes original author works and rare volumes. It also includes representative samples of earlier eras, and includes
1036-498: The literature and performance of poetry. Poetry Out Loud offers more than $ 105,000 in prizes and school stipends each year. The foundation's awards seek to promote and bring recognition to poets and poetry. The Pegasus Awards are a series of awards to poets and poetic forms (the winged horse, Pegasus , was used to illustrate the early magazine covers, and is part of the foundation and magazine’s branding). They are generally given annually. The Young People's Poet Laureate (formerly
1073-504: The nationwide competition in 2009. First Place went to Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia student William Farley. Second place was awarded to Barbara Gooding of Kentucky. Kareem Sayegh, representing Illinois, was awarded third place. Fourth and fifth place went to Mido Aly of Ohio, and Wiyaka His Horse Is Thunder of South Dakota. 2010 - First Place went to the representative from Rhode Island, Amber Rose Johnson. Second place
1110-726: The poetry form, and to generate solutions to benefit the art. Christian B%C3%B6k Christian Bök , FRSC ( / b ʊ k / ; born August 10, 1966, in Toronto , Canada) is a Canadian poet known for his experimental works. He is the author of Eunoia , which won the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize . He was born "Christian Book", but uses "Bök" as a pseudonym. He began writing seriously in his early twenties, while earning his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Carleton University in Ottawa . He returned to Toronto in
1147-451: The third year in a row, Nicholas Amador of Punahou, Hawaii claimed a top spot, earning a second-place to finish off his senior year competition. Third place was awarded to Hope Stratman from Omaha, Nebraska. 2019 - Minnesota high school senior student, Isabella Callery won the title of the 2019 Poetry Out Loud National Championship for her recitations of poems by Joy Harjo , Natalie Diaz , and Charles Lamb . 2020 - The national competition
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1184-588: Was Amanda Fernandez, of the District of Columbia. Branden Emanual Wellington of Indiana placed second, and third place went to Alanna Rivera, of Virginia. 2008 - Representing the Virgin Islands, Shawntay Henry became the 2008 National Champion; the first time the Virgin Islands participated. Ms. Henry was a 10th-grade student at the time. Her competition-winning poems included "Fredrick Douglas", by Robert Hayden. 2009 - More than 300,000 students competed in
1221-510: Was awarded to Ruth Haile, of South Dakota. Nora Sandler, representing Maryland, was awarded third place. 2011 - Youssef Biaz of Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama captured the national title with his reading of Elizabeth Bishop 's "Filling Station". The runner-up prize went to Victoria DiMartile of Fort Mitchell, Kentucky , while DeVonna Daisy Smith of Reading, Pennsylvania placed third. 2012 - Kristen Dupard of Ridgeland, Mississippi
1258-541: Was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation . The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools. It includes representatives from the fifty states, the District of Columbia , Puerto Rico , and the U.S Virgin Islands . The contest features some 900 poems for students to choose from. Typically,
1295-440: Was established in 1912 by Harriet Monroe . Monroe was its first publisher and editor until her death in 1936. The Poetry Foundation is one of the largest literary foundations in the world. In 2003, Poetry magazine received a bequest 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 magazine learned in 2001 that it would be receiving
1332-419: Was established in 2023, is bestowed in recognition of commitment and extraordinary work in poetry and the literary arts through administration, advocacy, education, publishing, or service. The Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships are awarded to five aspiring U.S. poets to support study and writing. The Emily Dickinson First Book Award was an award that recognized an American poet, not under
1369-531: Was named the 2012 National Champion. Rounding out the top three were Claude Mumbere of Burlington, Vermont in second place and MarKaye Hassan of Logan, Utah in third place. 2013 - Langston Ward of Spokane, Washington won first prize with his recitation of "The Gift" by Li-Young Lee at the 2013 National Finals. In second place was Blessed Sheriff of Rockville, Maryland. The third prize went to Denise L. Burns of Lawton, Oklahoma. 2014 - Representing Tennessee, Anita Norman won first place for her performance of "Let
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