U.S. sales of poetry have increased, Mr. Carroll says, but that could be due largely to the building of big book stores and the ease of buying books via the Internet. Mr. Carroll says his best evidence of success is the drawers stuffed with letters in his office. A jury clerk from a New York criminal court wrote to Mr. Carroll, who had passed out poetry in the jurors' waiting room. The court workers also enjoyed the experience. Men and women who daily deal with somewhat violent and coarse population in the holding cells of NYC Criminal Court were by your generosity momentarily escorted in a less brutal environment.
American poets are grateful, too.
Andy Carroll is someone who wants people to find what's there. He's willing to cross the country in order to do it. Indeed, if Mr. Carroll had been more of a poetry insider, the Project might never have started. He confesses that he would not have written to Mr. Brodsky if he had known what his stature was and that he had won a Nobel Prize.