What a way to treat a local prize-winner
It was sufficiently astonishing to see the winners of the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes in poetry and journalism reported recently as local news, but what was truly incredible was the review of Claudia Emerson's prize-winning book of poetry that appeared in the April 23 Books section. It is a very good thing that the reviewer was not a member of the distinguished Pulitzer committee that gave the award; let us devoutly hope that he never is.
No poet connected with Greensboro, other than the occasional visitor, has ever won the Pulitzer. I can only imagine what treatment awaits the unfortunate Greensburger who wins a Nobel Prize!
Tom Kirby-Smith
Greensboro