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Article: Keillor story about poetry contest has women's organization miffed.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- January 25, 1996
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Members of a St. Paul women's club are miffed that Garrison Keillor, after judging their poetry contest last year, may have used the experience as fodder for an unflattering short story. Compounding the perceived insult was the fact that the magazine in which the story appears hit newsstands Tuesday - the same day the club announced this year's poetry competition.
"Garrison Keillor Reads Four Hundred Poems and Likes One" reads a banner across the cover of the new Atlantic Monthly. The fictional story is narrated by someone who read 400 poems to judge a contest, held by a Minnesota "poetry society," that in some respects resembled that of the St. Paul chapter of ...