Archive for February 23rd, 2009
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
What's Really Wrong with Poetry Book Prizes?
Last September, I chimed in on David Alpaugh’s provocative essay, “What’s Really Wrong with Poetry Book Contests.” The problem is economic — book contests are an easy way to get poets to subsidize their own publication. You can think of it as a publishing co-op, something like Cahuenga Press, only instead of a dozen people [...]
