Don Share Named Editor of Poetry Magazine

Posted on June 1, 2013

The Poetry Foundation has announced that Don Share will be the next editor of Poetry magazine. He will be the 12th editor in the magazine's 101-year history. He will begin his tenure on July 1, 2013. Share replaces outgoing editor Christian Wiman.

Share has held editorial posts at magazines including the Partisan Review, Harvard Review, and Literary Imagination. He was the curator of poetry at Harvard University for seven years. Share has also published ten books. His most recent books are Wishbone (Black Sparrow) and Bunting's Persia (Flood Editions).

Poetry Foundation president John Barr said in a statement, "Don Share's deep experience as editor, critic, poet, and scholar, as well as his fellowship with the entire poetry community, make him the perfect choice to lead Poetry into its second century."