Hi Pierre
I checked this site out not long ago. It seemed to me to be pretty
questionable: its lack of accountability was only one problem.
Given the way poetry competitions seem so important a step towards
publication in the US, there are probably questions to be asked. But
anonymous innuendo and slander didn't seem to me to be the way to do it. I
think the fact that aspiring poets have to shell out hundreds of dollars in
competition fees in order to have any chance of being published is pretty
shonky. On the other hand, here in Australia poetry publishers are
subsidised by government grants, which seems to be rather rare over there;
and poetry publishers have to subsidise themselves somehow.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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