An autobiography (in sonnets) by Michael Lally, Poetry honors include: NYC 92nd St. Y Poetry Center's 1972 Discovery Award for The South Orange Sonnets; two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships (1974 and 1981, the second attacked in Congress--the NEA accused of rewarding "pornography" for the poem "My Life"--in the first attempt to defund the NEA); 1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for "Excellence in Literature" for Cant Be Wrong;...
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