Death Poetry Biography
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By 1930 all of Poetry's early competitors, such as the Little Review and the Egoist, were no longer operating. Although the magazine's Open Door policy helped guarantee its aesthetic survival, as the Depression in America deepened, Poetry was in a nearly constant state of financial emergency, and Monroe may have felt that she ended her initial fundraising in 1912 prematurely. She informed readers in a 1930 editorial that the current issue might be the last. The magazine was saved, however, by the many small donations from readers, and by a timely corporate grant.Two years later, the magazine's twentieth anniversary provided the occasion for more worry. For the anniversary issue, Marianne Moore wrote the poem, "No Swan So Fine," which addresses the theme of passing. And, in a letter to Monroe, Moore wrote, "The thought of your terminating this great work of yours, begun twenty years ago, that has had throughout your particular individuality, saddens me. The article in the Tribune is gratifying, especially the line saying Poetry'gives the city a loftier fame throughout the world than any other asset Chicago possesses.' . . . How I do hope that the millionaire will yet come forward." Monroe herself thought that the magazine would not survive her death. When she died in Peru in 1936 newspaper headlines agonized over the possibility that the magazine might close; once again the generosity of readers and contributors helped Poetry to continue. In 1941 the Modern Poetry Association was formed as a not-for-profit organization whose board members undertook financial responsibility for the magazine. Finances would always remain precarious, however, and the pattern of near collapse followed by last minute rescue was repeated in coming decades.
Nevertheless, throughout the waxing and waning of the magazine's fortunes, (during one particularly dark period under Karl Shapiro's editorship there was only one hundred dollars in the bank), Poetry continued to pay its contributors and award prizes, a tradition inaugurated by the Guarantor's Prize, given to Yeats in 1913. But editors, often practicing poets themselves, nearly always have had to juggle their editorial responsibilities with the need to solicit money from individuals and foundations, a task accomplished with varying degrees of vision, skill, and success. The first Poetry Day, arranged by Henry Rago in 1955, featured Robert Frost, and this fundraiser would become a popular annual event, interrupted only in 2001 by the events of September 11.
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By 1930 all of Poetry's early competitors, such as the Little Review and the Egoist, were no longer operating. Although the magazine's Open Door policy helped guarantee its aesthetic survival, as the Depression in America deepened, Poetry was in a nearly constant state of financial emergency, and Monroe may have felt that she ended her initial fundraising in 1912 prematurely. She informed readers in a 1930 editorial that the current issue might be the last. The magazine was saved, however, by the many small donations from readers, and by a timely corporate grant.Two years later, the magazine's twentieth anniversary provided the occasion for more worry. For the anniversary issue, Marianne Moore wrote the poem, "No Swan So Fine," which addresses the theme of passing. And, in a letter to Monroe, Moore wrote, "The thought of your terminating this great work of yours, begun twenty years ago, that has had throughout your particular individuality, saddens me. The article in the Tribune is gratifying, especially the line saying Poetry'gives the city a loftier fame throughout the world than any other asset Chicago possesses.' . . . How I do hope that the millionaire will yet come forward." Monroe herself thought that the magazine would not survive her death. When she died in Peru in 1936 newspaper headlines agonized over the possibility that the magazine might close; once again the generosity of readers and contributors helped Poetry to continue. In 1941 the Modern Poetry Association was formed as a not-for-profit organization whose board members undertook financial responsibility for the magazine. Finances would always remain precarious, however, and the pattern of near collapse followed by last minute rescue was repeated in coming decades.
Nevertheless, throughout the waxing and waning of the magazine's fortunes, (during one particularly dark period under Karl Shapiro's editorship there was only one hundred dollars in the bank), Poetry continued to pay its contributors and award prizes, a tradition inaugurated by the Guarantor's Prize, given to Yeats in 1913. But editors, often practicing poets themselves, nearly always have had to juggle their editorial responsibilities with the need to solicit money from individuals and foundations, a task accomplished with varying degrees of vision, skill, and success. The first Poetry Day, arranged by Henry Rago in 1955, featured Robert Frost, and this fundraiser would become a popular annual event, interrupted only in 2001 by the events of September 11.
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