Transcript: Profile: Future of Poetry magazine

SHEILAH KAST
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
05-22-2005
Profile: Future of Poetry magazine

Host: SHEILAH KAST
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

SHEILAH KAST, host:

It has been nearly three years since pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly donated $170 million to tiny Poetry magazine in Chicago. Poetry is the nation's oldest poetry journal. It introduced the work of Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot, among others. A foundation was formed to oversee the magazine and the Lilly bequest. Its advisory board recently announced plans to widen Poetry's audience. But some people are wondering if good fortune will change the magazine in unexpected ways. From Chicago, Judy Valente reports.

JUDY VALENTE reporting:

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