a cardboard cutout of Langston Hughes snatched from Busboys & Poets last week--has turned into full-blown debate about the D.C. poetry scene. "I took it," Thomas Sayers Ellis told us Tuesday. The Washington native, poet and assistant professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College said he grabbed the life-size cutout of Hughes as a protest--because he doesn't think that the restaurant/performance space pays poets fairly for their public readings.
from The Washington Post: Poetry salary slam
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