[New-Poetry] Bon Jovi, Shaq, Doc Williams and old Walt...where's Ginsberg?

[TheOldMole]

Among the inevitable roster of athletes and entertainers inducted into 
the New Jersey Hall of Fame on Monday, three literary luminaries were 
recognized by the state for their contributions. From a shortlist of 
nominees, New Jersey residents selected Pulitzer Prize–winning poet 
William Carlos Williams, who also served the community as a physician; 
Walt Whitman, who lived in Camden during the latter part of his life; 
and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who attended school in Hackensack.

Williams’s granddaughter, Daphne Fox-Williams, who lives in the poet’s 
hometown of Rutherford, told the /Star-Ledger /that the honor was 
anticipated. “He contributed his life to New Jersey as much as anybody 
else who's ever lived here,” Fox-Williams said of her grandfather. “The 
recognition is long overdue.”

The writers join astronomer Carl Sagan, musician Jon Bon Jovi, and 
basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal, as well as seven others, in the Hall 
of Fame's second round of inductions. Toni Morrison was among the first 
honorees in 2007. A formal induction ceremony will take place on May 3 
at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

“This group of hall of famers embodies the spirit of New Jersey, a 
combination of drive, determination and creativity that has led them to 
greatness,” New Jersey governor Jon Corzine said in a statement. “The 
New Jersey hall should serve as a reminder that the people of New Jersey 
strive for excellence and engage in myriad productive and rewarding 
activities that help society and give back to mankind.”

-- 
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/

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