[New-Poetry] MacArthur Poets

[Suzanne Burns]

On 8/6/07, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:

> Many of us find a new one weekly. It's a great time to be alive as a
> writer. I don't mind the silence, but I would like to see Bernadette Mayer
> hired by a good university. (Of course, there is a down side for very
> deserving writers who have to endure financial worries for decades. Before
> them I am silent.)
>


Not to go way off topic, but I have  thought the same thing about Mayer--
i.e., why she isn't on the faculty of a really top notch University and
paid very, very well.   She is after all not only an extraordinarily
accomplished poet, she also has that rep for being a particularly gifted
teacher.  *sigh*

Suzanne Burns
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