Sunday, June 10, 2001

Introducing Poetry, Inc: ISO of 100 Poetry Snarkers!

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We're serious: Let 'er R.I.P.
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Poetry, Inc, developed with nary a plan in mind and launched on June 10, 2008 (pay no heed to the year on this post), intends to take poetry snark to yet another level--

A lower level?

Who can say? We're too new to know...

Consider us the funny aunt or uncle to the more serious Poets.net...

Do you like humor, satire, parody, and just plain snark?

Do you believe that Poetry, Inc (a.k.a. the poetry establishment) has itself become a parody and is worthy of humorous jabs at its antics and perps?

Are you hankering to write comedy for Comedy Central or Conan O'Brien?

If so, apply to join Team Poetry, Inc. In the subject line, type "I Want To Join Team Poetry, Inc!"

We are in search of 100 snarkers (Blogger's absolute limit) to join our snark project.

We can't promise that your participation will lead to bigger and better things--in fact you may even end up on the Poetry Blacklist!

To apply for this double-edged honor, paste in your email a sample of your writing:
--Humorous/snarky poetry

--Humorous/snarky prose
Snark on!
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

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1. I am the AUTHOR of 40 books,

2. ranging

3. from large-scale

4. collections

5. of poetry

6. To pamphlets, collaborations,
Libretti.

7. UNIVERSITY

8. Of Chicago Press

9. Harvard

10. UNIVERSITY

11. Press

12. Northwest

13a. UNIVERSITY

13b. Press

14. I am Donald T. Regan

15. PROFESSOR

16. Of English

17. And Comparative

18. Literature

19. UNIVERSITY

20. Of Pennsylvania

21. Co-founder and co-editor

22. And EDITOR

23. And co-founder

24. Co-editor

25. Book series

26. A=G=E=D

27. With Bruce Andrews

28. I edited

29. was anthologized

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31. EDITOR of Louis

32. Zukofsky

33. who dreamed in the bathtub

34. Oxford

35. UNIVERSITY

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40. An audio poetry anthology

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46. Gray

47. PROFESSOR

48. Of Poetry

49. And Letters

50. At the State

51. UNIVERSITY

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Anonymous said...

When Bin Ramke was a little baby,
Sittin' on his papa's knee,
Well he picked up a poem and another poem, too,
Said, "Contest gonna be the death of me, Lord, Lord!
Contest gonna be the death of me!"

Ramke had a judge for a contest,
Her name was Jorie Graham,
And when the winner was announced, who do you think it was?
Maybe it was Jorie's man, Lord, Lord!
Maybe it was Jorie's man.

But the judge it was a secret,
So nobody really knew,
Just another winner and just another prize,
And nobody cares about you, Lord, Lord!
And nobody cares about you!

Well, the man who invented the contest fee,
He thought he was mighty fine,
He made great poets out of all his friends
And there was money left for cheese and wine, Lord, Lord!
There was mony left for cheese and wine!

Anonymous said...

"THE" GUIDELINES

1. No feeding the moderators on Poets.org.
2. No crack cocaine at Colrain.
3. No Pongo jokes on P&W Speakeasy.
4. No bringing Jim Behrle to an MLA Conference.
5. No accusing Billy Collins and John Ashbery of writing prose—it’s poetry.
6. No hidden obscenities in your poems published in “Poetry.”
7. No sleeping with Paul Muldoon to get published in the "New Yorker.”
8. No inserting your poems into your best-selling novel—we’ll see through that.
9. No posting drunk on Poets.net.
10. No sleeping with David Lehman’s girlfriends.
11. No translating Russian poetry into Greek for sex.
12. No submitting third-world hooker poetry to Tupelo Press.
13. No non-soft-focus-photographing of Jorie Graham.
14. No work-shopping your bad poems. Quit it.
15. No work-shopping your good poems. What’s the point?
16. No earning more than 3 Poetry MFAs at one time.
17. No judging more than two dozen contests at once.
18. No sending Alan Cordle free copies of your remaindered poetry to buy him off.
19. No submitting poems to “Fence” magazine which you wrote when you were actually sober.
20. No selling fake autographs of Robert Pinsky for thousands of dollars on Ebay.

Anonymous said...

Great work.

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