Archive for March, 2006

The CLMP is Proud to Present the Winner of the Nightboat Books Contest

As I feared, the CLMP “ethics” guidelines, endorsed by numerous presses, has generated the first faux-winner in a contest. Joshua Kryah’s Glean was the talk of this year’s AWP conference because it’s the alleged winner of the 2005 Nightboat Poetry Prize, selected by “esteemed” poet, Donald Revell. Strangely enough, Kryah is a PhD […]

Troublemaking Librarians

I’m the guest, along with Radical Librarian, Jessamyn West, on Moby Lives Radio. Today I speak about my concerns with the CLMP Ethics Guidelines for contests.