Guggenheim Foundation President Edward Hirsch

Among this year’s recipients
of Guggenheim Fellowships are
Nick Spitzer, host of American Roots
Choreographer Joe Goode
Daniel Alarcón (for fiction)
Fiction writer & editor of Conjunctions
Bradford Morrow
& Russian translator Michael Wachtel

plus these poets:
Christopher Buckley
Greg Delanty
Erica Funkhouser
Fenton Johnson
A. Van Jordan
Dana Levin
D. Nurkse
Kathleen Peirce
Lawrence Raab

It would appear that
just maybe
not one
post-avant poet applied

(Sure is a good thing
that the division
between
the Mainstream & the Other
tradition doesn’t exist any more…

Otherwise,
this list of poets
just by itself
might cause one
to feel queasy
as to the integrity
of the Guggenheim process)