We noted this recent correction to a New Yorker article about Poetry magazine. And now here's a correction to a New York Times Book Review essay that criticized that story:
An essay on March 11 about poetry in The New Yorker magazine referred imprecisely to the poet W. S. Merwin. While he was indeed a special Bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress for 1999-2000, a position some consider tantamount to that of a poet laureate, he has not been United States poet laureate.
The essay also misspelled the surname of another poet at one point. He is J. D. McClatchy, not McLatchy. Link
