Archive for December, 2004

Open Season

The University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series is ready and willing to accept your money and manuscript in January. As far as we know, the series editor is still Bin Ramke, who has repeatedly abused his position of power to pad the finalist pool with former students, lovers, and friends of each year’s anonymous judge. […]

The Lenore Marshall Prize and the Doping of Poets

Foetry is frustrated. Barry Bonds and Marion Jones are big news, but even the Nation and The Academy of American Poets will not seriously address our questions about their recent mutual bestowment of the $25,000 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize to Donald Revell. The judges were Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman, and Harryette Mullen.
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