Foetry

Foetry.com stays until foetry (the fraud) stops. I’ve now got an assistant in the forum: foetry1. I’ll be posting there under the username alan. Stay tuned for more. Thanks for coming back.

I was outed last week and suddenly everybody wants to join Foetry’s forum. They are closed. The sudden surge in registrations saddens me — why didn’t you care enough to be a part of this during the past year when you could have joined? What’s the attraction of coming here now? Am I the car […]

My name is Alan Cordle — not a poet, but a librarian, age 36. After several incorrect guesses, Janet Holmes’s two sites, whoisfoetry.blogspot.com and her personal site now contain my name — the name of the registrant of the foetry.com domain. I am unsure how she obtained this information. I will soon […]

Jorie Graham, after a year, has finally responded to Foetry’s claims, today in the Boston Globe.
Here is the link to the original column by Alex Beam, which was outstandingly well-researched, and her follow-up letter, which accuses Foetry.com of “slander.”

Today is the one year anniversary of Foetry.com.
Our best-known forum member, Robert Creeley, died this week. We have admiration for him, though in the end of his short time at the site, he disappointed a number of us. But his presence here was an act that has not been followed by any other poets […]