Great Regulars: There's no money in poetry.

OK, maybe for an extremely few, an extremely lucky, blessed few. You could win a Pulitzer. A Guggenheim. A MacArthur. A Nobel.

Or, like Elyse Fenton, a poet living in West Philadelphia, you could win the Dylan Thomas Prize, as she did at the University of Swansea in Wales on Wednesday night. That would earn you a tidy 30,000 pounds ($48,000). Fenton's book Clamor, a collection arising from her experience as the wife of a soldier serving in Iraq, was the first book of poems to win the three-year-old award, given to a work by a writer under 30 that has been published in English.

from John Timpane: The Philadelphia Inquirer: For W. Phila. writer, poetry pays

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