Word: wiman
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...less like high-end pop songs and more like math problems to be solved. They turned into the property of snobs and professors. They started to feel like homework. "It's thought of as a subject to be taught instead of simply an art to be enjoyed," says Christian Wiman, Poetry's editor...
Maybe $200 million can help. After ensuring its own financial well-being--"It's always been on the brink of going under," says Wiman--Poetry magazine begat a larger entity, more suited to wielding nine-figure sums, called the Poetry Foundation. The foundation needed somebody to run it who was equally at home serving art and Mammon, and they found what they were looking for in John Barr, who spent 18 years at Morgan Stanley before co-founding a boutique investment-banking firm on his own. During that time he also published six books of verse and taught...