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« Googling applicants | Main | Return of Arf! » Monday, March 12, 2007Poetry slam!I thought the culture piece of the weekend (outside the Globe, of course), was this takedown of a recent New Yorker article on the Poetry Foundation. The author, David Orr, a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle, found Dana Goodyear's criticisms of the foundation in the New Yorker both misguided and self-contradictory. (The foundation, now wealthy thanks to a benefactor's massive gift, has been looking for ways to make poetry more central to America's cultural life. Goodyear found the efforts Babbitish.) In a personal turn, Orr suggests that the New Yorker look at the mote in its own eye. There's something wrong, he says, when the magazine is publishing the poetry of a a well-connected young staff member -- one Dana Goodyear -- more often than that of almost any other living poet. Posted by Christopher Shea at 01:41 PM
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