News at Eleven: The poet Elizabeth Alexander,

who is professor of African-American literature, followed him [Walter Mosley] and American studies at Yale University. Then Rafael Campo, a poet and professor at Harvard Medical School, and Mary Jo Salter, a poet and a professor at Johns Hopkins University quit. Finally at the weekend the poet William Louis-Dreyfus, the president of the board for the past six years, abruptly flounced out.

from The Independent: Poetry in commotion: poets and prejudice

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