Well if it comes from Aus, Pat, it will be a cheque.
Bill
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 11:01 pm, Patrick McManus <
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> thanks -am still waiting for some-one to send me a $10,000 check even an
> Aussie one!
>
> On 19/03/2019 02:46, Bill Wootton wrote:
> > Fabulous Merwin stories, Millicent. Thanks. Maybe he wanted to give you a
> > $10,000 leg-up as an aspiring poet!
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 12:06 pm, Millicent Borges Accardi <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >> I have a bunch of stories about Merwin. I'll share two here.
> >> 1) when I was in college, a group of friends and I had limited budgets,
> so
> >> we met for breakfast (which was vastly cheaper than dinner). And we
> would
> >> read poetry. This one time someone brought Merwin's collected poems
> (the
> >> one with his photo on the large cover), so we propped it up and joked
> >> around that we were having Breakfast with Merwin! It became a 'thing"
> so
> >> once a week we would breakfast with Merwin. During that time, Merwin
> gave a
> >> reading in Laguna Beach, so I went to see him and there was a book
> >> give-away and I won! so I got to go onstage and get a signed copy of
> the
> >> collected poems book, which Merwin signed. I told him the story and he
> >> invited me out to dinner with his hosts and some local writers--we
> ended up
> >> hanging out for hours and we exchanged addresses. For many years, I
> would
> >> get a letter from Merwin maybe? once a year or once every other year?
> >> 2) in one of the letters, he had included a check (from a publisher that
> >> he had signed over to cash it was for around $10,000). I was flustered
> >> and didn't want to insult him but I think he had gotten confused and
> sent
> >> me the check by mistake so I returned it and said I think he had
> enclosed
> >> it by mistake. He thanked me profusely, saying how kind and honest I
> was
> >> --
> >> Even though I was barely an acquaintance. I felt honored to have at
> least
> >> interacted with him, in small ways.
> >> Millicent
> >>
> >> New Poetry Collection: Only More So @ Amazon
> >>
> >> http://www.MillicentBorgesAccardi.com
> >> @TopangaHippie on TwitterÁgua mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Mon, Mar 18, 2019 5:21 pm
> >> Subject: Another poet bites the dust
> >>
> >>
> https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/w-s-merwin-in-the-new-yorker
> >>
> >> New to me. Interesting, not least for his anticipation of the smart
> phone
> >> in 1969.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
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