write for a greater public. Although M.F.A. programs have expanded greatly, the result has been more poetry but also more limited variety. He wrote that poetry has become "neither robust, resonant, nor — and I stress this quality — entertaining." Barr suggested that poets get experience outside the academy. "If you look at drama in Shakespeare's day, or the novel in the last century, or the movie today, it suggests that an art enters its golden age when it is addressed to and energized by the general audiences of its time." Dana Goodyear, in an article in The New Yorker reporting and commenting on Poetry magazine and The Poetry Foundation, wrote that Barr's essay was directly counter to the ideas of the magazine's founder, Harriet Monroe, eight decades before. In a 1922 editorial, Monroe wrote about newspaper verse: "These syndicated rhymers, like the movie-producers, are learning that it pays to be good, [that one] gets by giving the people the emotions of virtue, simplicity and goodness, with this program paying at the box-office." Monroe wanted to protect poets from the demands of popular taste, Goodyear wrote, while Barr wants to induce poets to appeal to the public. Goodyear acknowledged that popular interest in poetry has collapsed since the time of Monroe's editorial. Wiman said he agrees with a lot of what Barr says about contemporary poetry. Awards In 2011, and in 2014, Poetry won National Magazine Awards for General Excellence. See also List of literary magazines Notes and references Specific references: General references Peter Jones (ed.): Imagist Poetry (Penguin, 1972). Historical note at the magazine Web site Boston Globe article on grant External links Poetry Foundation Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (1911-1962) Records at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center Poetry (1954-2002) Records at Indiana University Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the Modernist Journals Project: a cover-to-cover, searchable digital edition of the magazine's first ten years, from vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1912) to vol. 21, no. 3 (Dec. 1922). PDFs of these 123 issues may be downloaded for free from the MJP website. The Open Door: One Hundred Years of 'Poetry' Magazine – A poetry anthology celebrating the magazine's centennial anniversary, by Don Share and Christian Wiman 1912 establishments in Illinois Monthly magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1912 Magazines published in Chicago Poetry Foundation Poetry magazines published in the United States