Apostrophe-tastrophy
Amy Driscoll, in this
piece in the Miami Herald on the Seminar, pointed out that the
‘Writers
Lounge’ sign was missing its appropriate apostrophe, and that someone had added
it by hand. As technical director of the Seminar, I must take full
responsibility for the gaffe. I’d placed an order for some signage over the
phone to my graphic guy-always a mistake-and while the sign is lovely, the
grammar was wrong, My bad, mea culpa, etc. But the mystery remains: who fixed it? ADDENDUM: So the corrector was Billy Collins, which Nan pointed out in a comment, as well as the info being in Driscoll's story, which I clearly didn't read all the way through. I just look worse and worse in this one.
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Mystery solved: Billy Collins! (It's in Amy's story, actually.) If you're going to be corrected, you might as well be corrected by a poet laureate ...
As the designer in question, let me be the first to say what an honor it is to be corrected by a poet laureate. Usually it is an angry client, not a distinguished man of letters whom I hear from, so although this is still embarrassing, I take some comfort in that. Sorry for the error.
Greg Needham