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 > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com