Are we saying that there's a necessary conflict of interest in awarding a prize to a poet whose book you've blurbed? What do these two thing mean beyond the fact that Kennedy liked two things the poet wrote?
Joe Kennedy blurbed my book. We've never met, though we've corresponded a bit.
If I heard he were judging a contest, I'd be eager to enter, because he is one of the most well-known poets of whom I have reason to believe that he likes the kinds of things I write. Would I be wrong to enter such a contest because of the blurb? Would he be wrong to give me the prize, if he thought my entry the best?
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