Thanks, Alison--and thanks for your clear-eyed view of things. Obviously
some funny business does go down in pobiz and I'm all for exposing that
and ending it. Such shenanigans hurt everyone, including the
perpetrators, whose reputations take a deserved hit. Unfortunately,
though, foetry.com hasn't figured out how to avoid smearing the innocent
along with the guilty. As you say, "Poets' reputations, whether they
deserved it or not, were merrily dragged through the mud."
I should perhaps add that my own name never came up so I'm not
responding to an attack. I just find it puzzling that the site-owner, in
the link Jon provided, refers to "contests that are often large-scale
fraud operations," when his own wife won one of the contests in
question. Was it a large-scale fraud operation when she won? Or did
certain judges make questionable decisions? The distinction is
important, but in the world of foetry it all gets swept along in the
merry tide.
Rachel
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> PS And my condolences too on the death of your father -
> thanks all the more
> for writing in such a difficult time -
>
> Best
>
> A
>
>
> Alison Croggon
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> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
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