News at Eleven: [Christian] Wiman falls in the middle.

He started in 2003 and quickly became a polarizing figure in poetry circles, not catering to any ideology. He preferred formal poetry to the free verse published under the previous editor, Joseph Parisi. He made no bones about wanting poems that rhymed, told stories, spoke in plain English. "Poetry (magazine) wasn't the center of the literary conversation anymore," Wiman said. "I wanted to make an attempt to make it the center, to give you that sense that if you missed an issue then you were missing out on the conversation itself."

from Chicago Tribune: Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism

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