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Poetry Foundation Staff
John Barr, President
John Barr has pursued parallel careers as poet and investment banker. As a businessman, he has been a managing director at Morgan Stanley, a managing director of Société Générale, founder and chairman of the Natural Gas Clearinghouse (now Dynegy Corporation), and founding partner of Barr Devlin Associates. As a poet, he has published six collections and has taught poetry in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. He has served on the boards of the Poetry Society of America, Yaddo, and Bennington College.

Caren F. Skoulas, CFO
Stephen Young, Program Director
Anne Halsey, Media Director
Beth Allen, Project Manager, Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute
Justine Chiappetta, Program Assistant
Katie Hartsock, Media Assistant
Kristina Meyer, Office Administrator
Denise Rekoumis, Assistant to the President

Poetry Magazine Staff
Christian Wiman, Editor
Don Share, Senior Editor
Fred Sasaki, Assistant Editor
Valerie Jean Johnson, Editorial Assistant
Troy Nee, Intern

PoetryFoundation.org Staff
Emily Warn, Editor
James Sitar, Archive Editor
Nick Twemlow, Audio and Blog Editor
Michael Marcinkowski, Web Project Manager
Allison Batty, Permissions Coordinator
Brian West, Web Producer
Chad Heltzel, Intern

Poetry Foundation Board of Trustees
Ethel R. Kaplan, Chair
Susan Page Estes, Vice Chair
Robert C. McCormack, Vice Chair
Celia Hilliard, Secretary

John Barr
Charles T. Cullen
Thomas C. Cronin
Deborah Cummins
John Kenney
Donald G. Marshall
Norris McNamara
Daniel Menaker
Peter Minarik
Patricia Nissen
Robert Wedgeworth

Addie S. Baker, Emerita
Gilda R. Buchbinder, Emerita
Andy Austin Cohen, Emerita
Bryan Fuermann, Emeritus
Ruth Horwich, Emerita
Eileen Mackevich, Emerita
Diana Prince, Emerita
Rudolph Rasin, Emeritus

Honorary Trustee
Ruth Lilly
American poetry has no greater friend than Ruth Lilly. Over many years and in many ways, it has been blessed by her personal generosity. In 1985 she endowed the Ruth Lilly Professorship in Poetry at Indiana University.

In 1986 she established the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Awarded annually, the $100,000 prize honors a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. In 1989 she created two Ruth Lilly Fellowships, for $15,000 each, given annually by the Poetry Foundation to undergraduate or graduate students selected through a national competition. In 2002 her lifetime engagement with poetry culminated in a magnificent bequest that will enable the Poetry Foundation to promote, in perpetuity, a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.

Contact
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