On February 22, MobyLives ran its first story about Foetry.com, using a headline that said the story was “Something the Times will no doubt cover . . . in two weeks.” It took a little longer than even that: today’s New York Times finally covers the Foetry story, but the Times waited until it was all over. The article, by Edward Wyatt, is about how the site’s formerly anonymous proprietor Alan Cordle has shut down the site after his identity was revealed, and at the entreaty of his wife, a poet whom Cordle has stated elsewhere he fears will suffer because of the animosity against him in the poetry community. Although Wyatt does not quote any of Cordle’s proponents — many of whom wrote regularly to the forum on the Foetry site — he does give voice to Cordle’s enemies, notably Harvard poet Jorie Graham and Boise State University associate prof Janet Holmes. He quotes Graham from a phone interview calling Cordle’s charges “vitriolic and very painful,” although he does not say what those charges were (that Cordle had revealed on his site that Graham, as a judge, had awarded a major poetry prize to her husband, Harvard’s Peter Sacks). Wyatt quotes Holmes even more extensively — and just as mysteriously — although without interviewing her. Rather, he merely quotes her writing from her own website: “He should be ashamed of himself for what he’s done.”