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

[Anny Ballardini]

Read it all, did my duty.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Note: If I'm a stakeholder in this discussion, I'll take my stake and find
> some vampire heart
> to drive it through.
>
> Hal
>
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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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