Tuesday, June 27, 2006

News at Eleven: So I am able to aver

with a clear conscience that poets like James Applewhite and Peter Makuck, Betty Adcock and Eleanor Ross Taylor stand shoulder to shoulder with the best in the country. If their names are not so well known as those of John Ashbery, say, or Mary Oliver, that fact is much more an accident of geography and fashion than a gauge of quality.

from The News & Observer: Fred Chappell's last poetry column

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