[New-Poetry] Picking Pinsky for a Roethke Award

[Anny Ballardini]

As we all know on this list, I have a soft spot for Robert Pinsky (as much
as I do for Finnegan, the Oldest Mole, the Grumpy Bob, David G. the
Not-Grumpy, Cervantes of the Mills, Hal-the-hoy, ...

thus thanks for the link.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:40 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.mlive.com/saginawnews/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/11/janet_i_martineau_the_saginaw_8.html
> Picking Pinsky for Roethke Poetry Award was easy task, says one of the
> judges
> by Janet I. Martineau | The Saginaw News
> Thursday November 06, 2008, 11:06 AM
>
> Given the fact University of Massachusetts English professor Lloyd Schwartz
> reads 40 to 50 new books of poetry each year, it must have been a tough job,
> then, to pick Robert Pinsky's "Gulf Music" as the winner of the 11th
> Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award.
>
> Especially given the fact the prize goes to books published in the last two
> years, so that would make 80 to 100 books for him to choose from.
> And added to that, Schwartz was just one of three judges chosen to select
> the winner -- the others living in Florida and New York and avid poetry
> readers as well.
>
> "Well, actually no, it was not a tough job," says Schwartz with a laugh.
> "It was uncanny.
>
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