Poetry's Biggest Tool
And the winner is (sound of a snare drum rolling).... Who the hell knows. Only about 15 of you peeps actually voted--despite my repeated pleas and the increasing traffic this blog is getting as a result of being listed as the top "hot site" at Exquisite Corpse (ooh, I feel so hot!) (Didn't that used to be a respected journal? They must have really sunk if they're linking to a site like this.) We had some nominations outside those I mentioned: Karen Volkman got a vote and Sarah Manguso got two. Joshua Clover and Todd Swift tied for the most mentions. Clover also received a comment from "Jorie" who informs us that his tool really isn't all that big (she should know, I suppose). Across the pond, it seems Mark Ford is known for toolish ways. So who knows--the competition is thick, and our readers (that's you) seem to be a pack of lazy bums.
Coming soon! I dug up another lost poet of the 70s, leaving us with two remaining. Also, a little bird has been enouraging me to snark Mr. Aaron "thanks Brenda!" McCollough. Ask and you shall receive!
posted by Snark @ 3:58 PM
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maybe POETRY SNARK is poetry's biggest tool!
Isn't poetry's biggest tool Spencer Short?
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Heh, we all know which birdie's been siccing you on Brenda Hillman & Aaron McCollough.
He's acting on behalf of the sore loser of the contest he lost to Aaron; he apparently believes his prior communications with me (in which I encouraged him with suggested revisions) should have snagged him the prize. The fact that Hillman chose someone she didn't know is inconceivable to him and his friend, Mr. Foetry.
Funny that he seems to believe he'd successfully fixed the contest...I suppose if he'd won, everything would have been all right!
Why not sic yourselves on the whiners who believe the only reason they're never published is because someone else is cheating? 'Cause, you know, there are other reasons nobody's ever heard of them.
"...it just seems like you are throwing vague conjectures into the air with the hope to bait a response."
Heh, and that isn't bait, Agent T?
The "birdie" is Mr. Alan Cordle, who's been lurking in several blog comment areas trying to make it seem that his Foetry assaults have had an impact on people's careers. So far he seems to have had an affect on nobody except his wife, described as looking as if she wanted to kill him in the L.A. Times article Alan's so proud of.
The "sore loser" is Chris Semansky, whose piece in the Portland Oregonian tipped his hand. My guess--and I suspect the truth--is that he's the one who started the truly repellent rumors about McCollough and Hillman being student and teacher, working over manuscripts in her hotel room, etc. In truth, Hillman was not on the Iowa faculty while McCollough was a student there.
But then, Alan Cordle married his own professor, so he knows something about professor-student relationships. It's probably natural that he thinks everyone else is guilty of them.
The only beef Cordle has with me is that I and my lawyer alerted Domains by Proxy to the fact that (truly) illegal activity was ongoing in the original Foetry blog, including the provision of letters to be sent defaming me to my University and the Idaho Attorney General, in an attempt to get me fired. (They didn't succeed.) That's part of the libel law that gets you a conviction; the only way out of it is to prove that what they said was true, which is impossible. Domains by Proxy revealed his name. Alan's still upset.
Actually, I've enjoyed Poetry Snark pretty well; the "poets of the 70's" feature is truly funny. But don't turn into a rumor mill and libel factory like Foetry: it's ugly.
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interesting. are you also the sort of person who reads manuscripts for THE LITERARY REVIEW, agent trochee?
look at all the smack innuendo gossip shit talk janet squeezed into one blog comment..amazing
HYPOCRITE
Poetry's biggest Tool?
duh, it was right under our noses
clearly it's Janet Holmes
Darn. Why didn't Arielle Greenberg make this list?
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