Poet in the City over 75 active volunteers who are involved in a range of activities including event management, marketing, film production, blogging and front-of-house roles. A dedicated audio team conducts interviews with the poets, speakers, actors and musicians featured in the events for Poet in the City's vast audio archive. Poet in the City inherited a campaign to create an Anglo-French cultural centre at 8 Royal College Street in Camden, the house occupied by the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine when they lived in London in 1873. The Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation is now a successful separate charity. Poet in the
Paul Carroll (poet) Paul Carroll (poet) Paul Carroll (1926–1996) was an American poet and the founder of the "Poetry Center of Chicago". A professor for many years at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Professor Emeritus, his books include "Poem in Its Skin" and "Odes". While a student, he was an editor of Chicago Review. In 1985 he won the Chicago Poet's Award and the City published his book "The Garden of Earthly Delights". His papers, "The Paul Carroll Papers" are archived in the Special Collection Research Center at the University of Chicago Library. Among those papers are documents between Paul's buddy,