[New-Poetry] MacArthur Poets

[Sigauke, Emmanuel]

So I I guess these are the books to browse in Borders/B&N and let the smaller guys get all the sales. 

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Skip is exactly right. My only gripe about these awards is that they too often go to the guy just like the guy who won it last year. The MacArthur is a nice chunk of change and it would be nice to see it go to someone who could really use the money to live and get some work done instead of someone who's just going to buy another Roth and another three months in Italy with it.
 
I've never bought a book because the writer won a MacArthur, but I would like to think that some truly extraordinary work came about because of the writer receiving a MacArthur. 



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