[New-Poetry] Dorset Prize Dustup

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/24/2007 1:34:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
Opus40-01 at opus40.org writes:

I'm not  sure I completely follow this. I do like Levine's  response.



Tad, I think the intensity of the scrutiny and criticism speaks  to feeding 
frenzy that these book prize contest
have spawned. That and the fallout from Foetry.com and its outing  of various 
"inside jobs" that have gone on and continue to  subvert the 'blind' ("No 
peeking now!, I mean it.") judging  of these contests. Contemporary poetry has 
fomented a mess of presses  offering the Famous Dead Poet Poetry Prize and 
University Press Poetry  Prize and the Who's That First Book Award, and now we 
poets  happily like lemmings follow these Pied Pipers as we haplessly crest over  
the cliff's edge into an anonymous abyss waving a $20 entry fee  check like a 
broken wing 
 
Finnegan
 



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