In the wake of charges brought by the Foetry.com website (see yesterday’s MobyLives digest), the director of the University of Iowa Press says “There’s no way to have absolute blind… Read more »
The long-simmering controversy over Foetry.com seems to have erupted into a more full-blown tumult over its attack last week on the two fiction contests run by the University of Iowa—an… Read more »
“There is more excitement about poetry among students, teachers and non-university-affiliated Philadelphians than I’ve seen in the past two decades,” says University of Pennsylvania English professor Al Filreis, the director… Read more »
The note firing Pennyslvania state poet Sam Hazo was short and sweet: his “services were no longer needed,” wrote Penny Lee, an aide to Governor Ed Rendell. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette book… Read more »