[New-Poetry] Nat'l Book Award 2007 nominees, Poetry

[Anny Ballardini]

This should be my lucky day, what number is it?

From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Nat'l Book Award 2007 nominees, Poetry


> Thanks for the nomination for poetry award judge, Jeff.  Thumbs down 
> from me on everything David gives a thumbs up to.  Otherwise, I'll go 
> with Anny.  Without reading anything, or referring to Jim's judgements, 
> which might confuse me.
> 
> What I really think would be fun and useful would be some kind of award 
> to best collection of poetry put out by a publisher whose titles have 
> never won a BigName Award.  Which brings up the question of chapbooks.  
> I know of a lot of chapbooks that I consider much more impressive than 
> most full books.  One of the prejudices of the establishment is its 
> apparent belief that only full-length books count.  I guess you can get 
> away with paperback now, but for a long time you could not.
> 
> --Bob
>