A number of influential poets and critics associated with various movements in contemporary poetry, including Marjorie Perloff and Charles Bernstein, were list subscribers.
[2] It was run on servers owned by University at Buffalo, and was associated with the school's graduate program in poetics.
The Poetics List is not a venue for the posting of free-standing, personal poems or journal entries.
People who wished to join the list were asked to provide a short "personal statement" before being approved.
[4] In 2001 the list served as the main forum for a protest against the appointment of Billy Collins as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.