Garrison Keillor's books have introduced me to some poems that I really love, and also include poems I already knew and loved. He includes many formal poems as well as free verse poems. His taste is quite solid. He does not purvey Hallmark or Readers Digest pseudo poetry, but the real thing, and he brings it to millions of people, something no one else is doing. I wonder, Allen, what you have done in the service of the poetry you admire that can hold a candle to what Garrison Keillor has done?
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