[New-Poetry] Paul Engle from the Writer's Almanac

[Anny Ballardini]

That's a nice story, and a tad different from the official one that wants
him to be a hero.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:45 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

> A memory of Paul Engle, a great man and a shrewd man, with a touch of Casey
> Stengel to him. Tod Perry and I had both been trying to track him down for
> financial aid for a while, and we finally both cornered him, so he said what
> the heck, he had time now, why didn't we both come in. We did, and he
> managed, in the space of about 15 minutes to confuse "Tad" and "Tod," mix
> our stories and our needs up, and leave us no more enlightened on our
> financial situation, and not even sure between the two of us as to who was
> which.
>
> Anny Ballardini wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> It's the birthday of the poet *Paul Engle <
>> http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,c2vl,dv,ixjr,4g65,3hrs,fxvj#Biographical%20Note>*,
>> born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1908. He joined the faculty of the University
>> of Iowa and in 1941 took over as director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the
>> first program in the country to offer an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. He was
>> the director for 24 years, and he shaped the program, raised millions of
>> dollars, and made it into a model for similar M.F.A. programs. He convinced
>> lots of famous writers to move to Iowa City and serve as faculty members,
>> writers like Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Kurt Vonnegut. And he also
>> convinced many bright young students to come, including Flannery O'Connor,
>> Philip Levine, Donald Justice, and Robert Bly. He died in 1991 in an
>> airport, on the way to accept an award for his work.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anny Ballardini
>> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
>> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
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>> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
>> star!
>>
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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