From: Scribe1865-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:54:09 EDT
Subject: PLC: Watchdog of Corrupt Poetry World


http://www.foetry.com/index.html
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What made you decide to start the site? 
We were shocked by the number of times judges selected their own students as 
winners of “open” competitions and that only a few people complained. We felt 
there needed to be a watchdog organization to track these duplicitous doings, 
especially because money is involved. 

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What's the most egregious, in your opinion, of the ethical lapses your site 
has chronicled? 
Jorie Graham, who taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for many years, and is 
now at Harvard, selects her students regularly as winners of various 
contests. Richard Howard is recurring judge for the Paris Review Prize, a book 
competition at Zoo Press, and has selected his students as winners too. Choosing 
their own students not only looks unethical to outsiders, but also appears to be 
lazy and arrogant. Are they even reading the pool of manuscripts? Are their own 
students the only ones worth considering? ___


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