[New-Poetry] MacArthur Poets

[Sigauke, Emmanuel]

Great observation. I think it's the corporate concept of risk;
publishers and award providers seem to want to work with the
established, regular names always. What can be done about this? 

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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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