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

[Bob Grumman]

TheOldMole wrote:
> 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.”
>
I understand David Graham has been invited to the presentation to do a 
reading of "The Red Wheelbarrow."

--Bob