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[New-Poetry] Academy of American Poets Ousts Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Poets' Group Ousts Chief, Igniting Ire of Members November 7, 2001 By DAVID D. The board of the Academy of American Poets has ousted its popular executive director, William Wadsworth, setting off an uproar among some of the country's most prominent poets. |
 | | Galassi, an accomplished poet himself and the editor in chief of the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Henry Reath, the president of the board and the former publisher of Doubleday. |
 | | "The academy has to be prudent," he said, adding that the staff "may have to pull in their horns a little bit, but this is not about changing what they do." At least a few of the poets who initially questioned Mr. |
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