As you may know from reading the papers and General Talk, Poetry Magazine has just been thrown an enormous chunk of change (Recap of NYT story follows.)
Your mission (applause to Sharon Passmore for suggesting it): write Ruth Lilly a thank you note in verse; or put the news of her bequest to some other poetic use.
On your marks!....
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Lilly Heir Makes $100 Million Bequest to Poetry Magazine
November 19, 2002
By STEPHEN KINZER
CHICAGO, Nov. 18 - An ailing heir who tried but failed to
have her poems published in a small literary journal has
given that journal an astonishing bequest that is likely to
be worth more than $100 million.
Ruth Lilly, 87, an heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical
fortune, submitted several poems to Poetry magazine in the
1970's and was rewarded only with handwritten rejection
notes from the editor, Joseph Parisi. Evidently she did not
take the rejections to heart. Mr. Parisi announced her gift
at the magazine's 90th-anniversary dinner on Friday.
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