[T.S. Kerrigan]

I was fortunate enough to meet and talk with Carol Ann in September when I was invited to the Italian Alps to read my poetry. It was reminiscent of a meeting I had years ago with Mary Robinson at the Getty Museum in Malibu. Both women seemed to me dynamic and powerful and I had a heady sense of history being made. I congratulated Carol Ann for standing up for her own principles in discussions with the royal family. She is going to be, I believe, a powerful force for those principles, and just think of it, she is the first woman to be so honored in the history if England. Where are all the feminists on the Sphere? Where are alll those championing women's rights?

I tend to agree that the Christmas poem may not be her best work, but I don't think anyone can question the merits of the body of poetry she has produced. How can we lose sight of the ascendance of a woman to a place of such significance oveer a single poem?