Poetry has a new editor

The giant endowment given to the venerable Poetry magazine last year has prompted growth & movement in the organization: Joseph Parisi has moved across to head up the new Poetry Foundation, and Christian Wiman has been named editor of Poetry.

Wiman is only the 11th editor in Poetry’s 91-year history of publication. His work has of course been published in Poetry, and in 1994 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Fellowship administered by the Poetry Foundation’s predecessor, the Modern Poetry Association. He recently did a radio interview which is posted at Chicago Public Radio with several of his poems, and you can read (& sometimes listen to) more of his work at these links:

• “This Inwardness, This Ice” is Slate’s weekly poem this week.
• “Postolka (Prague)” & “Darkness Starts” are on The Atlantic’s Poetry Pages.
• “Reading Herodotus” appeared in New England Review.
• Jack Foley’s review of his first book, The Long Home, quotes liberally from the book.