In The Margins E10: Poetry, a Lifestyle Choice

E10 Guest: Marketing and Media Director Elizabeth Burke-Dain

 In this episode we speak with Elizabeth Burke-Dain, Marketing and Media Director for the Poetry Foundation. With a $200M endowment and its prestigious Poetry Magazine dating to 1912, The Poetry Foundation is the largest organization promoting poetry in the United States. Join us as we learn how the Poetry Foundation works to ensure poetry has a “vigorous presence in our culture”.

Podcast Notes:

Poetry Foundation:

• The Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
• Mission: “To bring a more vigorous presence for poetry in our culture”
• Poetry Magazine: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/
• Ruth Lilly: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/238462
• Robert Polito, President: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-polito
• Polly Faust, Media Assistant

Mentioned Writers:

• Robert Frost: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-frost
• Sylvia Plath: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sylvia-plath
• Lisel Mueller: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lisel-mueller
• Richard Ellmann (corrected from Elliston): http://www.emory.edu/ellmann/history/index.html
• Henry James: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/henry-james
• John Keats: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-keats
• James Joyce: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-joyce
• Harriet Monroe: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/harriet-monroe
• Walt Whitman: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/walt-whitman
• Ezra Pound: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ezra-pound
• T.S. Eliot: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/t-s-eliot
• Marianne Moore: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/marianne-moore
• H.D.: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/h-d
• CAConrad: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/c-a-conrad
• Ocean Vuong: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ocean-vuong

Poetry Foundation Programs:

• Poetry Out Loud: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/
• Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/poetryinstitute

Media Sponsorships:

• PBS NewsHour: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
• NPR: http://www.npr.org/
• The Writer’s Almanac: http://writersalmanac.org/
• American Life and Poetry: http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/
• Poetry Now: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/press/2015/186494

Experimental Music and Sound:

• LAMPO: http://www.lampo.org/
• Perfumer D.S. & Durga: http://www.dsanddurga.com/
• Noted Lily Rosenburg Fellows with Political Work:
• Wendy Xu: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wendy-xu
• Ocean Vuong: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ocean-vuong
• On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249156
• Danez Smith, Dinosaurs in the Hood: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249154
• Hannah Gamble, I Wanted to Make Myself Like the Ravine: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249152
• Solmaz Sharif, Persian Letters: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249144
• Eric Ekstrand: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/eric-ekstrand

Segment Break, 3-Sentence Reviews

• 3-Sentence Reviews: https://tatestreet.org/category/reviews/three-sentence-reviews/
• Winter Stars 3-Sentence Review: https://tatestreet.org/2011/04/13/spring-review-of-winter-stars/
• Larry Levis: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/larry-levis