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The National Poetry Foundation (NPF) is a book publisher founded in 1971 by Carroll F. Terrell [1] who built its reputation with Burton Hatlen at the University of Maine in Orono. Today it publishes poetry by individual authors as well as both journals and scholarship devoted to Ezra Pound and poets in the Imagist and " Objectivist " traditions.
The foundation is the successor to the Modern Poetry Association (previous publisher of Poetry magazine), which was founded in 1941. [2] The magazine, itself, was established in 1912 by Harriet Monroe. Monroe was its first publisher and editor until her death in 1936. The Poetry Foundation is one of the largest literary foundations in the world ...
Burton Norval Hatlen (April 9, 1936 – January 21, 2008) [1] was an American literary scholar and professor at the University of Maine. [1] Hatlen worked closely with Carroll F. Terrell, an Ezra Pound scholar and co-founder of the National Poetry Foundation, to build the Foundation into an internationally known institution.
At the University of Buffalo, Prevallet catalogued the archive of Helen Adam and her scholarly archive is a part of The Poetry Collection.She edited the definitive volume of Helen Adam’s work (A Helen Adam Reader, published by the National Poetry Foundation), which contextualizes Helen Adam within Robert Duncan's circle in The San Francisco Renaissance, as well as Adam's influence on Allen ...
National Poetry Month was inspired by the success of Black History Month, held each February, and Women's History Month, held in March.In 1995, the Academy of American Poets convened a group of publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary organizations, poets, and teachers to discuss the need and usefulness of a similar monthlong holiday to celebrate poetry. [3]
Although his main academic job has been at the University of Notre Dame, he has spent much of his professional life in Britain, where he did major scholarly work on the Anglo-Welsh poet and painter David Jones, editing both the poetry and essays on Jones's work for Faber and Faber, the National Poetry Foundation, and University of Wales Press.
The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry . Manuscripts are solicited through an annual open competition, judged and chosen by poets of national stature, and issued by various publishers.
A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national culture. [1] The national poet as culture hero is a long-standing symbol, to be distinguished from successive holders of a bureaucratically-appointed poet-laureate office.