{"id":3696,"date":"2012-08-09T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:47:13","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-june-1-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-june-1-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall, June 1, 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, June 1, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840601-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, June 1, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840601-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, June 1, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840601-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, June 1, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840601-002-unh.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">June 1, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the call. Wednesday is fine!<\/p>\n<p>I learned today I got the first Honorable Mention<br \/>\nin poetry from the Great Lakes Colleges Association New<br \/>\nWriters Contest (for a first book). Somebody from the<br \/>\nAssociation says that\u2019s the second place award of<br \/>\nthe contest. Anthony Petrosky, I believe the Walt<br \/>\nWhitman Award winner for 1983, also got an<br \/>\nHonorable Mention. Since the first place prize was<br \/>\nwon by a book which had not already gotten<br \/>\nan award (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">US<\/span>, published by the Cleveland<br \/>\nState University Press), I am wondering if they<br \/>\nprefer to give this prize to an awardless book&#8211;?<br \/>\n&#8211;A way of consoling myself for not being first.<br \/>\nI want it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>No letter has come about all this yet<br \/>\n(the announcement is sent to the nominating<br \/>\npublisher first). I was told by Joseph Parisi,<br \/>\nthe new editor of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry<\/span>, who was kind enough to<br \/>\nsend me a note of congratulations, having<br \/>\nreceived a news release. More of this<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>world-stopping news on Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b><i>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/i><\/b><\/span>\u00a0Don has invited me by phone for a Wednesday visit at his farmhouse.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3696\" data-postid=\"3696\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3696 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] June 1, 1984 Dear Don, Thanks for the call. Wednesday is fine! I learned today I got the first Honorable Mention in poetry from the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Contest (for a first book). Somebody from the Association says that\u2019s the second place award of the contest. Anthony Petrosky, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60366,35504,77589,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11205,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/11205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}