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Article: A new editor for Poetry and a new foundation for poetry
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Christian Wiman has been appointed the Editor of the Magazine, succeeding Joseph Parisi, who has assumed the new position of Executive Director of Publications and Programs. The appointments were made public in late May by Board Chair Deborah Cummins, who also announced that the Modern Poetry Association, publisher of POETRY, has now been restructured as a private operating foundation and renamed The Poetry Foundation.
Mr. Wiman is both a poet and a critic - as many POETRY readers know from his regular appearances in these pages, most recently in the June issue - and has contributed to several other journals, including The Alantic Monthly, Harper's, and Slate. In 1994, POETRY-The Modem ...