The only person who went to Stanford GSB to be a poet?
/Really enjoyed Dana Gioia on Econtalk. Is poetry back? We had Amanda Gorman at the inauguration. Was Vince Lombardi’s thing at the super bowl kind of poetic? Maybe?
Did some googling after listening to this episode and came across this fun story about Wallace Stevens, poet/insurance executive:
At another party in Key West, in 1936, a swaggering Stevens loudly impugned the manhood of Ernest Hemingway. When Hemingway showed up, Stevens took a swing at him, and Hemingway knocked him down. Stevens got up and landed a solid punch to Hemingway’s jaw, which broke his hand in two places. Hemingway then battered him, but later cheerfully accepted his meek apology. They agreed to a cover story: Stevens had been injured falling down stairs.