![]() Prominent to the point of selling out Madison Square Garden with an evening of your poetry – or prominent enough to be a reasonable potential contender for a tenure-track position of an assistant professor of English at East-West Podunk Hollow State College? ![]() I merely would like to understand the gradations of prominence here, I explained. Well, prominent prominent, you know, he replied. Recently in a conversation at a social gathering (god knows, I love those), a young man I hadn’t met before told me he wanted to be a prominent American poet. All that’s bound to give him an unusual perspective, and sometimes makes for an odd conversation, too. He’s also a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford. Now he writes in both English and Russian … in Montreal. Two years after his 1986 arrival the U.S., he began writing in English. ![]() Mikhail Iossel, author of Every Hunter Wants to Know: A Leningrad Life and contributor to The New Yorker, was born in the Soviet Union. ![]()
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