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Along with the National Endowment for the Arts, the poetry foundation sponsors Poetry Out Loud, a contest similar to the National Spelling Bee.
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In any case, her attention to poetry has been a boon for all poets, says Stephen Young, program director at the Poetry Foundation, based in Chicago.
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"I was thinking, 'This has never happened before in poetry, and I'm sure it will never happen again, '" says John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation, the author of six volumes of poetry and a former investment banker.
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He founded the Poetry International foundation with Ted Hughes and wrote several distinguished books of poetry himself.
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But I love being a poet, and I think that the poetry is the foundation of all of my creative work, actually.
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Barr still speaks in unpoetic terms like "cost per impact" and bankrolls projects like a syndicated poetry series the foundation gives to small-town newspapers to help fill pages.
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The foundation's flagship magazine, Poetry, has a rich history, including being the first to publish an up-and-coming poet named T.
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