[New-Poetry] Business of poetry

[Millicent Accardi]

I won't name names either, but allegedly, a well-known university retained Ginsberg's name as "visiting poet" in their catalogue and national ads long after his death. Many years after.


Cheers,

Millicent 


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From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 3:05 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Business of poetry



Sorry. The word "allegedly" should be in that first?
sentence of the message below. Mea culpa.?
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Hal?
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McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.?
They're a bridge to nowhere.?
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Halvard Johnson?
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On Oct 29, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:?
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> Of course, Maya Angelou was once making $80,000?
> a year from a university that just wanted her name?
> in its catalog. Some journalist famously checked out?
> the school and found the "office" listed as hers to be?
> a broom closet.?
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> Hal?
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> McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.?
> They're a bridge to nowhere.?
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> Halvard Johnson?
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> halvard at earthlink.net?
> halvard at gmail.com?
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html?
> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com?
> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com?
> http://www.hamiltonstone.org?
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html?
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>> I suspect Angelou makes a lot from her novels, which are in many >> public schools.?
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