The nerve of some journals.
What would you think of a contest that offered its entrants a possible spot in the canon? Fucking crazy, no? Well, check out this contest sponsored by The National Poetry Review. I'm really stunned. And disgusted. Maybe the editors of this journal have physic powers, like Miss Cleo, and can predict what types of aesthetics the future will revere.
I really can't imagine any serious poet entering this contest. This contest will appeal to novices, to "poets" who wear all black and who brood in the corner of their local Starbucks.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
5 comments:
It does seem grandiosely named. & the fee/prize ratio is awfully light.
That's funny!
Maybe it's just a typo? Instead of "literary canon" they meant "a literal canon"? You know, you win, we stuff your poems in a canon and shoot it across a field!
That's a contest I'd enter.
I dunno--it seems to me they're just saying what most every editor believes anyway. And might there be some tongue-in-cheekiness here?
Isn't this how Bob Pinsky got the job a few years ago?
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