dublinka

I'm not a fan of poetry contests. Even assuming the process is not corrupt, which it often is, it's dubious to insist you can rank aesthetic objects, and the fact that the practice is widespread does not validate it. Worse still, the judging panel are forced to take your work our of context. Like ripping leaves from a tree, or the heart from the body. Before web-renaissance poetry, the reliance on the poetry contest, was one of the great hallmarks of the decline of poetry, scraps for the dogs, but in a sense justified as a method of helping the poem make contact with the wider world. Now I believe the process is redundant. If you disagree, fine, you can even pay 15 dollars for the above magazine here.