[New-Poetry] MacArthur Poets

[AlMaginnes at aol.com]

The one thread I see running through here is that most of these folks have  
or had New York publishers, which means that the Mac Arthur people are just as  
lazy as most other selectors for the big prizes. Many of these people are  
deserving, but there are many other poets just as gifted and just as  
deserving--and in much greater need of the money than say Mark Strand, Robert  Hass or 
Jorie Graham.
 
I remember that I cheered when Lucia Perillo won because I like her early  
work, up thorugh "The Oldest Map With the Name America" a great deal. Jay Wright 
 is consistently inventive and challenging and his work has been  
consistently overlooked. But so many of these people seem to have  been  selected because 
it was the only prize they hadn't  won.



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