for a $25 million mansion-like "Home for Poetry," which one trustee characterized as the foundation's "monument" to itself; the granting of a job to foundation president John Barr's wife; and the spending of more than $1 million on a Web site and a brow-raising $706,000 on a survey to determine poetry's place in American life today."We are not a private club, and the Foundation's resources are not for our personal gratification," Peter Minarik, one ex-trustee, scolded the foundation's leadership in one of a flurry of letters documenting the disagreements.
from Chicago Tribune: A poetic clash over millions in cash
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