[New-Poetry] GeoffreyHill WinsTrumanCapote Awardfor LiteraryCriticism

[Mark Weiss]

Almost always may be the proper term. Fanny Howe's recent prize is heartening.

Mark

At 06:51 PM 4/18/2009, you wrote:
>TheOldMole wrote:
>>I'm guessing that's less true.
>I can't say I've researched it, but I do notice that it is 
>incredibly rare that a major prize does not go to a Big 
>Name--probably for both reasons.  When it doesn't, it's almost 
>always clearly motivated by some form of political correctness.  Or, 
>in the case of prizes like the Yale, it goes to a protege of a Big Name.
>
>--Bob
>
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