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09-17-2017, 04:52 PM
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Just sent them something -- thanks, Matt!
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09-17-2017, 07:03 PM
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09-17-2017, 10:46 PM
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What they both said.
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09-18-2017, 12:06 PM
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Thanks for the tip, Ed: I came, I saw, I sent.
Something struck me as strange when I checked the table of contents of the book derived from the last DT contest. I spent way too much time scanning everything posted, I thought, but the book includes mostly well-established poets whose names I never saw, including our own AE Stallings. Hmmm.
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09-18-2017, 04:01 PM
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Ralph, I was puzzled, too, but concluded that the book was not, in fact, connected with the NYT contest except in terms of having the same theme. My guess is that Amit Majmudar may have been inspired to approach a lot of well-known poets to ask them for their poems that were about or connected to Donald Trump, and that the NYT chose to spotlight that book.
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09-18-2017, 04:03 PM
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Ralph, are you suggesting the venerable eds put a call out to the people but ended up making the book out of poems from friends and names?!?
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09-19-2017, 06:10 AM
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Some of you must have a fair few lying around already.
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I would say I have "an ugly many".
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09-19-2017, 11:53 AM
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The 50 Poems Now anthology was something that the poetry editor at Knopf came up with as an idea, and reached out to me to see if I was interested in executing it. If you read the introduction to the anthology then I explain the process.
...And actually I don't know very many poets--in fact I regularly correspond by email with a grand total of...zero. So the vast majority of the poets in the anthology are people I've never met, a few I'd never heard of. In the future, maybe don't assume the worst.
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09-19-2017, 06:01 PM
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It's always good to hope for the best and fear the worst. It keeps your hopes at a reasonable level.
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