What's Really Wrong with Poetry Book Contests?

Isn’t that a rhetorical question? Everyone knows what’s wrong with poetry book contests. They’re rigged! In 2004 the Web site Foetry began investigating personal connections between contest judges and winners. The poetry world was shocked by allegations that some of America’s most prestigious prizes were going to the judges’ students, friends, colleagues, even lovers.

Dishonesty! Cronyism! That’s what’s wrong with poetry book contests, right?

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