Poetry Foundation

The PoetryFoundation.org wants to be “a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture”, and I have to admire how vigorously they work toward that end. It all began with Poetry Magazine. The century old independent journal predates the Foundation by 90 years. The Foundation itself is the newer evolution of the Modern Poetry Foundation, which was founded in 1941 to ensure publication of Poetry Magazine.

Along with the printed word, the Foundation's site has podcasts of poems read by authors and others, of groups discussing poems and poets, and of interviews with poets. While many podcasts are produced...