Transcript: Poet's Wordplay Leads To MacArthur 'Genius' Award

ROBERT SIEGEL
NPR All Things Considered
09-22-2009
Poet's Wordplay Leads To MacArthur 'Genius' Award

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

Poet Heather McHugh is also a recipient of the $500,000 MacArthur Genius Grant, and we reached her in Victoria British Columbia.

Congratulations on the MacArthur Grant.

Ms. HEATHER McHUGH (Poet): Thank you.

SIEGEL: What are you going to with this grant? How will it change your work life?

Ms. McHUGH: I've been teaching for 33 years and to learn to teach is to learn to pay attention to the work of others, and I've been doing that pretty ardently these many years, taking now and then a leave of absence. I will take a ...

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