Bravo, to Rita Dove to standing toe-to-toe with a critic as limited and falsely superior as Helen Vendler. If you haven’t read Dove’s response to Vendler’s review in NYRB, the link is below.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/dec/22/defending-anthology/

The president’s office at BMCC is sponsoring awards in the following four categories: a. Lyric poetry b. Dramatic monologue (which would include rap and slam poetry) c. Closed or traditional forms d. Performance poetry (submitted as video) The deadline for award submissions will be in late February with the announcement of winners in early April. […]