Robert Polito, a poet, critic and former director of the writing program at the New School in New York City, is the new president of the Poetry Foundation, which publishes Poetry magazine and offers public readings and other programs at its handsome new headquarters building in Chicago. He replaces John Barr, a poet and financial manager who retired last year. Polito has written two collections of poetry, including Hollywood & God (2009) and Doubles (1995), both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (Knopf, 1995), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. On his first day on the job in early July, Polito, sixty-one, took time out to chat with Poets & Writers..........
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