[New-Poetry] Changing of the guard

[TheOldMole]

And this is why I think it's a good thing.

millb at aol.com wrote:
> This week, our niece emailed to say that she really liked the Merwin 
> poems in the New Yorker (since she knows I am a subscriber).  So, to 
> your point, even our niece, the librarian noticed a change enough to 
> mention it to me.  It's not often that I get emails from family 
> members commenting about the poems in the New Yorker.  In fact, I 
> think this was a first.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mill
>
>
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> From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> Sent: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:48 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Changing of the guard
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on Paul Muldoon at the New Yorker? He's going 
> for the tried and true -- a couple of poems by Merwin in the last 
> issue I read, looks like Merwin and Stephen Dunn in the current issue. 
> For myself, I have no problem with this. It's better poetry than we're 
> used to seeing in the New Yorker, and these guys have earned their 
> place at the top of the food chain. The New Yorker is a general 
> audience magazine, after all. 
>  
> David Graham wrote: 
> > Mary Karr takes over the Poet's Choice column at The Washington Post. > 
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803507.html 
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The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
  --Corey Ford