There has been a small firestorm in the blog world about how terrible the contest system of first books of poems is. Some have gotten really strident about it, about how entering contests somehow makes a poet morally corrupt or at least deeply suspect. Whereas those who self-publish, who publish at micro-presses or POD presses are somehow better because they didn't buy into the system, because they are somehow supporting independent, creative thought.
Bullshit...
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.
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Yes. I agree. You're at Bucknell this semester/year? That's kinda of awesome, no?
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