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Poetry Foundation Leadership Resigns Following Demands And Criticism

WORDS Posted: June 11, 2020 6:04 am

Just a few days after a letter, written by 30 prominent poets and now co-signed by roughly 2,100 people, called for the resignation of the $250 million foundation’s president and board chair and a detailed plan for the organization to hire from and support the work of marginalized groups and to “eradicate institutional racism,” president Henry Bienen and board chair Willard Bunn have stepped down. – Chicago Magazine

WORDS Published: 06.10.20

Read the story in Chicago Magazine Published: 06.10.20

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