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Poetry pays
As my colleague David Mehegan notes below, literature prizes in the US tend not to be as generous as those in other countries. But there are some exceptions to the rule: Yale University has awarded the $100,000 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry to Frank Bidart, who teaches at Wellesley College (which kindly posted two of his poems below the announcement of the prize.
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