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Poetry (founded as Poetry: A Magazine of Verse) has been published in Chicago since 1912. It is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Founded by Harriet Monroe, it is now published by the Poetry Foundation. In 2007 the magazine had a circulation of 30,000, and printed 300 poems per year out of approximately 100,000 submissions. It is sometimes referred to as Poetry—Chicago. Poetry has been financed since 2003 with a $200 million bequest from Ruth Lilly. History The magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, an author who was then working as an art critic for the Chicago Tribune. She wrote at that time: "The Open Door will be the policy of this magazine—may the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius! To this end the editors hope to keep free from entangling alliances with any single class or school. They desire to print the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what theory of art it is written. Nor will the magazine promise to limit its editorial comments to one set of opinions." In a circular she sent to poets, Monroe said the magazine offered: "First, a chance to be heard in their own place, without the limitations imposed by the popular magazine. In other words, while the ordinary magazines must minister to a large public little interested in poetry, this magazine will appeal to, and it may be hoped, will develop, a public primarily interested in poetry as an art, as the highest, most complete expression of truth and beauty."

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Also known as Poetry Magazine

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“The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.”
— Manmohan Acharya, Gita Milindam [Song of the Bumblebee] (2008).
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
— T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919).
“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
— A. E. Housman, The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933).
“Good poems are the best teachers. Perhaps they are the only teachers. I would go so far as to stay that, if one must make a choice between reading or taking part in a , one should read.”
— Mary Oliver, (130 pages)
“You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick...You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.”
— Dylan Thomas "Notes on the Art of Poetry" (1951).
“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
— Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (1653-1655), Part I, Chapter IV.

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Inception: 1912
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Notable quotes

“The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.”
— Manmohan Acharya, Gita Milindam [Song of the Bumblebee] (2008).
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
— T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919).
“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
— A. E. Housman, The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933).
“Good poems are the best teachers. Perhaps they are the only teachers. I would go so far as to stay that, if one must make a choice between reading or taking part in a , one should read.”
— Mary Oliver, (130 pages)
“You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick...You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.”
— Dylan Thomas "Notes on the Art of Poetry" (1951).
“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
— Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (1653-1655), Part I, Chapter IV.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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