Poetry magazine to receive $100 Million

Ruth Lilly *), last surviving great-grandchild of the founder of Eli Lilly and Co., will ensure**) the magazine’s future. (From The Chicago Tribune .)
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**) und zwar, weil sie Gedichte an die Zeitschrift schickte, die für gut aber nicht gut genug für solch würdiges Magazin befunden wurden, was ihr in einem handschriftlichen Absagebrief mitgeteilt wurde.

Perhaps it was Parisi’s handwritten rejection note. Or similar rejection notes he’d send over the years to the same woman, whom he has to this day never met or even spoken with. But, along the way, Mrs. Van Riper grew to have affection for the publication, the kind that may change the state of poetry in America. / Chicago Tribune 17.11.02 Siehe auch NZZ 21.11.02

NYT*) November 21, 2002:

Poetry Hits the Jackpot
By MARTIN ARNOLD (NYT)
Poets reacted to the news that an 87-year-old heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune had given what could be as much as $100 million to Poetry magazine.

POETRY Magazine celebrates its 90th year of uninterrupted monthly publication with a special double issue featuring new poems by 77 of its most loved contributors. From Ashbery, Bly, and Collins to Kizer, Kumin, and Oliver to Wojahn, Wright, and Wrigley, the 90th Anniversary issue is an up-to-date anthology of what’s best in contemporary verse. To order this important issue and learn more about the magazine that T. S. Eliot called „an American Institution“ visit http://www.poetrymagazine.org