[New-Poetry] Payday for Clifton

[Bob Grumman]

>>     Lucille Clifton has won the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, with its
>>     modest $100K stipend.
>>
>>
>>         http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-to.clifton07may07,0,3656579.story?coll=bal-artslife-today
>>
>>         A most deserving winner, I say.  
>>          
>>         Yeah.  There can't be many more than a thousand American poets
>>         who are twice as good as she is.
>>          
>>         --Mr. Sour Grapes
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>>
>>     Ah GruntMan!
>>
> 
> Well, you, me, and who else?

Granted, the "twice as good" was an exaggeration.  I should have said, "as good or better."  There may not be many more than a hundred living American poets who are significantly better than Clifton--including at least half the hundred or so American poets my Runaway Spoon Press has published, and two or three dozen language poets, such as Silliman, Bernstein and Coolidge--and Ashbery, Wilbur.  Mike Snyder.  Even David Graham and Barry Spacks, and a number of others at New-Poetry.  Even Jorie Graham, for Pete's sake. Many more I don't have time to try to remember.

--Bob   
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