Matejka, who grew up in Indianapolis, is also the author of the poetry collections “The Devil’s Garden,” “Map to the Stars” and “Somebody Else Sold the World” and an upcoming graphic novel, “Last On His Feet.” In what he calls “strange serendipity,” he is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University Bloomington. Boone, who in 2021 became the foundation’s first Black president, said in a statement. We look forward to his leadership and collaboration with the team to share new poets and poetry with the world,” Michelle T. “As an accomplished poet, educator, and past poet laureate, Adrian brings invaluable talent and experience. Several Matejka poems have run in the magazine. Eliot, Marianne Moore, John Ashbery and many other leading writers. Poetry, founded in 1912, has published T.S. The foundation was established in 2003 after Ruth Lilly, an heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune, donated $100 million to the magazine. Matejka’s hiring was announced Tuesday by the Poetry Foundation, a Chicago-based organization that oversees Poetry. Matejka, whose 2013 collection “The Big Smoke” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, added that he was “committed to re-imagining Poetry not only as a venue for poetics, but more importantly, as one that is in service of poets and treats writers as the gifts that they are.” “The 19-year-old version of me, thumbing through the magazine’s pages with wonder, would have never imagined that he would one day be part of such a vital literary institution.”
“I couldn’t be more humbled or excited to be the new editor of Poetry,” Matejka, 50, said in a statement. Adrian Matejka, an educator, former state laureate of Indiana and prize-winning poet, begins his new job May 16. NEW YORK (AP) - Poetry magazine, one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications, will for the first time have a Black editor.