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TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Some time I posted a poem I wrote concerning a blurry childhood memory of my mother sobbing over a stove, the conceit being that I would first give hints that this was going to be a sad, melancholic memoir and then reveal, through some presumably clever alignment of telling detail, that her tears were not from a beef with my father but rather that she'd been chopping raw onions for what she was cooking....
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Carol Peters (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
[my thanks to Emily Lloyd for this list] Despite my raging joy that Heather McHugh has won half a million dollars, I deplore prize giving of all kinds because of the implied value judgments, politics, social bias, cultural pressure, category exclusions, etc. Below is a chronological list of poets who have won the MacArthur. How many of these poets have you heard of? How many have you read? How many...
Explore : Adrienne Rich,
Alice Fulton,
Amy Clampitt,
Anne Carson,
Brad Leithauser,
C.D. Wright,
Campbell McGrath,
Charles Simic,
Derek Walcott,
Fine Arts,
Galway Kinnell,
Ishmael Reed,
John Ashbery,
Joseph Brodsky,
Mark Strand,
May Swenson,
Richard Howard,
Robert Penn Warren,
Sandra Cisneros,
Thom Gunn
