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Article: Changing the landscape of verse; The $100 million question: Can Christian Wiman make you appreciate poetry?(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 20, 2004
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Byline: Elizabeth Lund Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Poet and editor Christian Wiman admits that he is "terrible with money." He has never had a lot of it and is careful about what he spends. So when he began his current job almost a year ago, he hesitated before making his first big purchase: a box of paper clips. The irony here is that Mr. Wiman edits Poetry magazine, the richest literary publication in the United States.
Wiman's unease with money is just one example of how he defies expectation. As editor of Poetry, the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world ($35 a year), he holds one of the most influential - ...
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