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Alan Dugan's career has
been a happy marriage

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as far as I'm concerned.

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His good poetry and
recognition therefore

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began a long time
ago in 1943 when

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he was a student at Queens
College in Brooklyn,

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and was given a
prize for his poetry.

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Since that time,
there's a long list,

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in 1946 Poetry Magazine
gave him its Young Poet's

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Prize for a group of poems
published in that magazine.

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In 1961 he was chosen
as the Yale Younger Poet

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as we say, for that year.

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And out of that publication
drew the National Book Award,

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the Pulitzer Prize,
and the Prix de Rome.

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And following upon that
was the publication

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of a second book in 1963,
also Yale University Press.

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And he tells me
that next fall there

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will be a third book, also
Yale University Press.

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He has until last
year been what you

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might call a non-campus
poet, which is unusual today,

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poets of this
generation, that is he

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has not been teaching
poetry or poetry writing.

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But last year when
William Meredith

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left his job at the Connecticut
College and went to Princeton,

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Mr. Dugan replaced him
and has become interested

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in the possibility
of doing that again.

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Meanwhile he said jobs and
newspaper work publishing,

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advertising, and building
models in a medical supply

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house in New York City.

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The-- what all of this has had
to do with his poetry or what

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effect it's had on the
quality of its poetry

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I will leave it up
to you to judge.

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The next poet will be Wednesday,
September 15 same time,

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same place Louise Bogan.

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And I'll now ask Mr.
Dugan to take over.

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