Dear Burt,  Please send me the mailing address.
I would like to pledge $25 for the Ez.
 
--- Burt Hatlen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The letter below is addressed to all members of the
> Ezra Pound Society.
> I recently sent out this letter to all subscribers
> to Paideuma, because
> everyone who subscribes to the journal is
> automatically a member of the
> Society.  So too, although most of you probably
> don't know this,
> everyone on the Pound list is automatically a member
> of the Society,
> with all of the rights (there are none) and
> responsibilities (there are
> none of these either) that go with such membership.
> Thus I am sending
> this letter to the list as well.  Those of you who
> subscribe to
> Paideuma will receive the same letter through the
> mail.
>
> Burt Hatlen
>
>
> August 15, 1999
>
>
> Dear Pound Society Member,
>
> Hugh Witemeyer, the Society s first president, has
> proposed that the
> Society institute an annual award for the best
> book-length contribution
> to Pound studies.  Current president Barry Ahearn, I
> as secretary of
> the Society, and several other members have
> discussed Hugh s proposal
> and endorse it.
>
> The Society would make the award annually at the
> Modern Language
> Association convention.  It would be called  The
> Ezra Pound Society
> Prize  (the  Ez  for short).  The judges for the
> award will be the
> reviewer of Pound books for American Literary
> Scholarship and the
> Managing Editor of Paideuma, with the immediate past
> president of the
> Society called in to cast a tie-breaking vote, if
> necessary.  We hope
> to make the first presentation this December in
> Chicago, awarding a
> prize for the best Pound book published in 1998.
>
> We hope to raise $500 each year for this award.
> Hugh, Barry, and I
> have each pledged $25 to this end, and the National
> Poetry Foundation
> has pledged $100 annually to the prize. We are
> writing at this time to
> ask you to contribute to this year s prize. If you
> are able to make
> such a contribution, please send a check to the
> National Poetry
> Foundation at the address on this letterhead. NPF
> will place all such
> donations in a separate account for the Ezra Pound
> Society Prize.
> Please indicate on the check that you are making a
> contribution to the
> Pound Prize. NPF is an agency of the University of
> Maine, a tax-exempt
> institution; therefore your donation should be tax
> deductible.
>
> If you are in a position to pledge continuing
> contributions in later
> years, we would also welcome such pledges.  If we
> can find sixteen
> people willing to pledge $25 per year (and we ve
> already found three
> such persons), we will be able to fund the prize
> indefinitely.
>
> Thank you for your attention, and we hope to hear
> from you soon.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Burton Hatlen
> Secretary, Ezra Pound Society
>
> for Hugh Witemeyer, immediate past president, Ezra
> Pound Society
> and Barry Ahearn, president, Ezra Pound Society
>
 
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