The National Poetry Foundation (NPF) is a book publisher founded in 1971 by Carroll F. Terrell[1] who built its reputation with Burton Hatlen at the University of Maine in Orono.
Today it publishes poetry by individual authors as well as both journals and scholarship devoted to Ezra Pound and poets in the Imagist and "Objectivist" traditions.
Since 1978, when NPF published its first collection of poetry, the works of such poets as Carl Rakosi, Thomas Parkinson, and Kenneth Fearing have appeared.
As well, NPF has published the influential anthology of Language poets, In the American Tree, edited by Ron Silliman.
Featured speakers in 1996 included Marjorie Perloff, M. L. Rosenthal, Albert Gelpi, Robert Von Hallberg, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Charles Altieri, Jerome Rothenberg, Armand Schwerner, Theodore Enslin, Ed Dorn, Alicia Ostriker, and others.