Couldn’t sleep, so I’m up reading through (some of the hundreds of) the poetry posts I missed because of NaPoWriMo, and ran across this from poet (and attorney) Seth Abramson: the movement to stop Derek Walcott’s election as Oxford Professor of Poetry because of his (alleged) history of sexual harassment. The decision will be made May 16th. Other candidates are Ruth Padel and Arvind Mehrotra.
Edited 19 May to add: Walcott withdraws (via).
