Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Wilbur Award
No compliance with efore.  Google, Google Books, Google News and HighBeam Research all show that it is often cited and that it is in fact prestigious.  Being published by this university is not trivial; it is an important prize and consequential recognition.  The $25 fee merely keeps them from being inundated by nonserious applicants.  There is only one award per year.  Meets .The statement that it "sounds like a vanity award" is simply untrue.  The argument is  and a bare conclusion.  It is a logical fallacy unrelated to otability. ''It ignores'':1. the credentials of the person who established the award William Baer (writer)|William Baer, a professor at the University of Evansville who is recognized as a serious poet in his own right;:2. the purpose and intent to honor the memory of the second U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur (who won ''two'' Pulitzer Prizes){{cite journal |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/richard-wilbur-in-the-new-yorker |title=Richard Wilbur in the New Yorker |date=October 16, 2017 |first1=Hannah |last1=Aizenman |work=The New Yorker}} and :3. the institutional reputation and gravitas of The University of Evansville.In effect you are impugning both their credentials and their eleemosynary and artistic intent. This is ''not'' a vanity press or a Commercial enterprise. ''Cf.'', Famous Poets Society.{{cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2002/nov/24/entertainment/ca-rivenburg24 |title=There Once Was a Poet from L.A. |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 24, 2002 |first1=Roy |last1=Rivenburg
— User:7, 05:12, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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