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

[Judy Prince]

Indeed.
BTW, is it necessary to understand any of the Poetry Foundation's
Announcement in order to apply for some money from its Inaugural Project?
 You might volunteer, Hal, to put their announcement in Hal-sonnet form,
nah?

Judy

2009/3/5 Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>

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