Those worms, those curs, those . . . unnameables.
Hal, referring to the poets, natch
"The bacon too carries on its modest
love affair."
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On Feb 20, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Well, between Barr & Billy Collins, this article tells me why I
> don't pay any attention to Poetry (the magazine & foundation, that
> is).
>
> This paragraph really gives the game away:
>
> 'The Poetry Foundation functions as an operating foundation,
> spending most of its money on its own activities rather than on
> grants. As Ethel Kaplan, a lawyer at a wealth-management firm and
> the chair of the board, put it, “Nobody wanted to sit back and read
> grant proposals—especially from poets.” By January, the foundation
> had received eighty-eight million dollars. After all the money has
> been distributed, the foundation’s budget will be about ten million
> dollars a year.'
>
> Of course, I'd like the money, but....
>
> “Nobody wanted to sit back and read grant proposals—especially
> from poets.”
>
> Of course not.....
>
> Doug
> On 19-Feb-07, at 7:39 PM, Jon Corelis wrote:
>
>> http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070219fa_fact_goodyear
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>> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
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> Douglas Barbour
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>
> the precision of openness
> is not a vagueness
> it is an accumulation
> cumulous
>
> bpNichol
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