A couple weeks after the coronavirus lockdown began, a petition appeared on change.org, calling on the Poetry Foundation to establish a $5 million emergency fund to support the poetry community. The authors of the petition, the founders of a small publishing house, reasoned the sum would amount to about 2% of the well-endowed Foundation’s assets. The Poetry Foundation doused the idea a few weeks later, issuing a brief statement noting that while it already has contributed $25,000 to the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund, it would not be making new commitments. The Chicago-based organization said it has a mandate to support its own headquarters and operations. But that endowment was valued at $257 million in 2018. Signers of the petition say it must do more for poets and writers right now. Read more here. —Jen Day
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