I'd just as soon gather for cakebut leaves when- ever.
--- Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> TheOldMole wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, I checked Wiki and compiled this
> list of poets
> > who've won MacArthur grants . One thing that
> surprised me was how many
> > of these poets I'd never heard of.
> >
> > A. R. Ammons
> > Joseph Brodsky
> > Derek Walcott
> > Robert Penn Warren
> > Brad Leithauser
> > A.K. Ramanujan
> > Robert Hass
> > Charles Simic
> > Galway Kinnell
> > John Ashbery
> > Daryl Hine
> > Jay Wright
> > Douglas Crase
> > Richard Kenney
> > Mark Strand
> > May Swenson
> > Allen Grossman
> > Jorie Graham
> > John Hollander
> > Alice Fulton
> > Eleanor Wilner
> > Amy Clampitt
> > Irving Feldman
> > Thom Gunn
> > Ann Lauterbach
> > Jim Powell
> > Adrienne Rich
> > Sandra Cisneros
> > Richard Howard
> > Thylias Moss
> > Susan Stewart
> > Linda Bierds
> > Edward Hirsch
> > Ishmael Reed
> > Campbell McGrath
> > Anne Carson
> > Lucia M. Perillo
> > C. D. Wright
> >
> >
> > Years in which no poet won a MacArthur Grant:
> 1982, 1988, 2001, 2002,
> > 2003, 2005, 2006 ... a distressing trend?
>
> Repeat after me: Oh Well.
>
> > And if we were to take a vote on who the least
> deserving MacArthur
> > recipient was, who would win?
> >
> No way am I, the representative of tranquility,
> going to take the bait
> on *that* one. All I will say is that at a half
> million bucks per
> writer, a lot of that money could have bought
> pencils, pens, books, and
> binders for kids in inner city schools.
>
> Ken
>
> --
> --------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
> We'll do the best we know.
> We'll build our house and chop our wood
> And make our garden grow...
>
> Bernstein/Wilbur, "Candide"
>
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