Foetry lawsuit
The other day I read that some whiner is trying to sue the Iowa Writers' Workshop for running an unfair book contest. I think it was one of the humorless geeks from foetry.com. Wait! You mean the faculty at IWW engage in academic cronyism! Stop the fucking presses. You mean you sent them your manuscript and a check and they didn't pick YOU. You mean--my god--you actually trusted the IWW faculty to impartially read those manuscripts dredged up from the pile? Sucker.
posted by Snark @ 8:02 PM
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Why do people who respond to posts on this site keep telling us to "go easy" or "not blow a gasket"? Did you see the name of the site?
Most poets and poetry lovers play the sucker more than, say, the common businessman. It's a rare poet that's truly hard-boiled.
Otherwise, said poets would write combustible non-fiction and get paid for it.
Fire it up.
Tourbillon
It seems pretty obvious that judges are gong to choose manuscripts by students they've infected/guided with their own aesthetics. And so what? So what, so what, so what?
So what? So they're narrow-minded cronies. But cronyism is a great tradition in poetry. Long live the cronies!
Oh yeah, "community." My bad.
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