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:
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