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?
And if we were to take a vote on who the least deserving MacArthur
recipient was, who would win?
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Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
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