“Go on message boards, plant yourself wherever conference attendees might be hanging–what the heck, sit in on a few conferences every now and then…” (hypothetically, of course).

Evidently, it works. (except for the part about winning a prize).

It is hard to write a bad poem. Perhaps your bloggers would like to each contribute a line for a “nonsense” poem that you would submit (under a bogus name, of course, with a junk email addy courtesy of gmail) and see what happens.

FYI, lots of great poems from nurses over on Rattle blog + nurse’s essay…a bit too discombobulated to comment so far (serious case of Palin derangement, what can I say).

Outrage, poetry.com – what’s the point? Meaning, if you want to put ‘em out of business – you need a lawsuit (class action from the sounds of it?) – and you need a group of plaintiffs. Or an attorney general who is interested in the case. Maybe anyone who would be a plaintiff is simply too embarrassed to step forward??? It’s the humiliation factor? There is a core of outrage…and a hard outer shell of humiliation that has to be broken through. I sometimes joke with a friend, “guilt is the glue that holds the universe together” – you know, you forget to send a birthday card, something like that – but I think you could argue that humiliation is a kind of glue that holds the universe together, too. Or maybe – capitalism?

Humiliation is the glue that holds capitalism together.

On that note

What you really need to do is send them something like:

Blah blah blah,
You judges are lame.
My spam filter is better
At the editing game.
Blah blah blah,
oaiehj flodkfad oijdlk
Blah blah blah.
Ha ha ha…ha! =P

Of course they’d publish that, too. I really like the Wergle Flomp thing — writing a horrible poem is harder than you’d think!