[New-Poetry] Fwd: For Immediate Release: Poetry Foundation Announces Inaugural Project of Poetry Institute

[Halvard Johnson]

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From: <info at poetryfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Subject: For Immediate Release: Poetry Foundation Announces Inaugural
Project of Poetry Institute



   *For Immediate Release
March 5, 2009
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/announcements.html*

 *Poetry Foundation Announces Inaugural Project of Poetry Institute*
*Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute to consider distribution of poems through
new media*

CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation, publisher of *Poetry* magazine, is pleased
to announce that as its first project the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute
(HMPI) will develop a set of "best practices" for implementing and elevating
the profile of poetry through new-media platforms. A policy institute
dedicated exclusively to issues of intellectual and practical importance to
poetry, the HMPI has as its purpose to convene interested parties to
identify issues and champion common solutions for the benefit of poets and
the art form of poetry.

Over the course of 2009, the HMPI will invite a panel of poets, publishers,
and experts from the fields of media law and technology to examine issues
related to the distribution of poetry through new-media platforms, with the
aim of forging recommendations that both protect the intellectual property
of poets and publishers and ensure a vigorous presence for poetry in all its
forms on all available outlets.

Consideration of the needs of poets and their publishers, and with them
their audiences, will be a cornerstone in this initial Institute
undertaking. As such, the project will include poets and publishers as
essential stakeholders in the discussion, bringing them together with
leaders from electronic media, media law, and other pertinent fields to
create a model for new-media distribution of poems.

Through this focus on poetry and its creators and publishers, the HMPI will
also work to address the distinctive needs of poetry as an art form and to
consider these needs in developing its recommendations about how best to
bring poetry to audiences now being reached by new media. The project will
concentrate not only on the current distribution of poems over the Internet
but also on the evolving nature of technology and new media in order to
develop recommendations that simultaneously serve varied electronic
distribution platforms. Any resulting administration of generated ideas will
be undertaken by a separate entity or entities.

Katharine Coles, poet laureate of Utah, former head of the creative writing
program at the University of Utah, and founding director of the Utah
Symposium in Science and Literature, has been named the Institute's
inaugural director. Members of the Institute's initial working group
include:

   - *Michael Collier*, poet, professor, and poetry editor for Houghton
   Mifflin
   - *Wyn Cooper*, poet and lyricist
   - *Rita Dove*, poet, playwright, professor, and former U.S. poet laureate

   - *Cornelius Eady*, poet, professor, playwright, and co-founder of Cave
   Canem
   - *David Fenza*, executive director of the Association of Writers &
   Writing Programs
   - *Kate Gale*, editor, writer, and founder and managing editor of Red Hen
   Press
   - *Kimiko Hahn*, poet and professor
   - *Lewis Hyde*, poet, essayist, professor, and MacArthur Fellow
   - *Fiona McCrae*, publisher and executive director of Graywolf Press
   - *Robert Pinsky*, poet, critic, professor, translator, editor, and
   former U.S. poet laureate
   - *Claudia Rankine*, poet, playwright, and professor
   - *Alberto Ríos*, poet and professor
   - *Don Selby*, co-founder of the *Poetry Daily* website
   - *Rick Stevens*, computer scientist and professor
   - *Jennifer Urban*, director of the Intellectual Property and Technology
   Law Clinic at the University of Southern California
   - *Monica Youn*, poet and counsel in the Democracy Program of the Brennan
   Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law


For more information on the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, including full
biographies of participants and more detail on the new-media distribution
project, please visit
www.poetryfoundation.org<http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/aboutHMPI.html>.
***

*About the Poetry Foundation*
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of *Poetry* magazine and one of the largest
literary organizations in the world, exists to discover and celebrate the
best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience. The Poetry
Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by
developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging
new kinds of poetry through innovative literary prizes and programs. For
more information, please visit www.poetryfoundation.org.

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