After voting to award the Frost Medal, an annual award, to John Hollander, the board of the Poetry Society of America (PSA) erupted into fulminations that led to the resignations of board members. Some of the board members objected that the award was being given to Hollander, who had often bemoaned that multiculturalism and the politicization of academe was lowering literary standards. Writing in the New York Time Book Review, Hollander had referred to “cultures without literatures—West African, Mexican, and Central American.” And in an interview on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” a reporter paraphrased Mr. Hollander as contending “there isn’t much quality work coming from nonwhite poets today.” Other board members said that Hollander had been misquoted, maligned, and misunderstood, and that Hollander’s poetry should be judged on its own merits. The president of the board, William Louis-Dreyfus, accused the protesting board members of McCarthyism and excessive reactionary fervor. Rafael Campo, Elizabeth Alexander, and Mary Jo Salter objected to Louis-Dreyfus’s handling of the situation. Alexander, Salter, and Campo resigned from PSA’s board in September; and then Louis-Dreyfus resigned from the board as well. Ruth Kaplan has become the new President of PSA.