You know you’re in trouble as a blogger when everybody else’s posts are more interesting than anything you can think of. Blue Monday. What else can I say?
Nothing except that this one is terrific—a glimpse inside the corrupted poetry contest system, in which more than one hapless author has been trapped like flies in a Coke bottle.
At any rate, it’s made me add Stacey Lynn Brown to my watch list for first books by up and coming poets. The woman’s got guts!
Thanks to Greg Rappleye at Sonnets at 4 a.m. for the link.
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
I read about this yesterday at<BR/>Collin Kelley’s Modern Confessional<BR/>blogspot blog. He feels poets need<BR/>to try to pull away from entering<BR/>contests.