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Poetry Foundation Staff
John Barr, President
John Barr has pursued parallel careers as poet and investment banker. As a businessman, he has been a managing director at Morgan Stanley, a managing director of Société Générale, founder and chairman of the Natural Gas Clearinghouse (now Dynegy Corporation), and founding partner of Barr Devlin Associates. As a poet, he has published six collections and has taught poetry in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. He has served on the boards of the Poetry Society of America, Yaddo, and Bennington College.
Caren F. Skoulas, CFO
Stephen Young, Program Director
Anne Halsey, Media Director
Katharine Coles, Director, Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute
Beth Allen, Project Manager, Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute
Justine Chiappetta, Program Assistant
Kristin Esch, Media Assistant
Kristina Meyer, Office Administrator
Denise Rekoumis, Assistant to the President
Poetry Magazine Staff
Christian Wiman, Editor
Don Share, Senior Editor
Fred Sasaki, Associate Editor
Valerie Jean Johnson, Managing Editor
Gina Rosemellia, Editorial Assistant
Poetryfoundation.org Staff
Catherine Halley, Editor
Travis Nichols, Associate Editor
James Sitar, Archive Editor
Michael Marcinkowski, Web Project Manager
Brian West, Web Producer
Michael Slosek, Permissions Coordinator
Caelyn Cobb, Intern
Kelly Forsythe, Intern
Poetry Foundation Board of Trustees
Donald G. Marshall, Chair
John Kenney, Vice Chair
Patricia Nissen, Vice Chair
Robert Wedgeworth, Secretary
John Barr
Thomas C. Cronin
Deborah Cummins
Susan Page Estes
Celia Hilliard
Ethel R. Kaplan
Bill Kurtis
Daniel Menaker
Robert C. McCormack
Paul Ruxin
Honorary Trustee
Ruth Lilly
American poetry has no greater friend than Ruth Lilly. Over many years and in many ways, it has been blessed by her personal generosity. In 1985 she endowed the Ruth Lilly Professorship in Poetry at Indiana University.
In 1986 she established the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Awarded annually, the $100,000 prize honors a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. In 1989 she created two Ruth Lilly Fellowships, for $15,000 each, given annually by the Poetry Foundation to undergraduate or graduate students selected through a national competition. In 2002 her lifetime engagement with poetry culminated in a magnificent bequest that will enable the Poetry Foundation to promote, in perpetuity, a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.
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Poetry Foundation: mail [at] poetryfoundation.org
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Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute: HMPI [at] poetryfoundation.org
