[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 4/21/2008 7:03:23 PM Central Daylight Time, 
jforjames at aol.com writes: 
> 
> Knott's rebuke of PSA and Silliman 's judging reminds me of Donald Justice 
> taking exception to Simic winning the Pulitzer with book of prose poems. As if 
> the prose poem were some kind of invasive species, injurious to native 
> poetry.
> 
> Finnegan

I think that was Louis Simpson, who protested that the offical name of the 
award was for verse.  Whatever you can say about prose poetry, it ain't verse.

Sam   
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