Poetry Foundation
Poetry Magazine
December 2008
Poems by Roddy Lumsden, Todd Boss, Joan Houlihan, Ange Mlinko, Fred D'Aguiar, R.S. Gwynn, Glenn Morazzini, Lilly Poetry Fellows: Nicky Beer, Michael Rutherglen, Roger Reeves; and more More
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3,785 Page Pirated Poetry Anthology

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Featuring the work of 3, 164 poets. Completely unpermissioned and unauthorized, pissing off the entire poetry community. Either you're in or you're not. Full roster below the fold.

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"Announcing the release of Issue 1, edited by Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter. Now available here as a 3,785-page PDF (3.9 MB)."

This issue features new poems by Nada Gordon, Evelyn Reilly, Julianna Mundim, Emmy Catedral, Enid Bagnold, Richard Siken, Stephen Ratcliffe, Michael Gottlieb, Jodie Childers, Norman J. Olson, Brent Hendricks, Sean Kilpatrick, Tom McCarthy, Stacy Doris, Michael Rerick, Corrinne Clegg Hales, Mark Decarteret, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Darren Wershler-Henry, Letitia Trent, Debra Di Blasi, Laura Elrick, Bruna Mori, Popahna Brandes, Robert Sheppard, Diana Magallan, Kristine Danielson, Ed Higgins, Drew Gardner, Kyle Kaufman, Matthew Thorburn, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Christopher Wells, Vanessa Place, Simon Pettet, Grace Vajda, John Bennett, Ian Patterson, Joseph Hutchison, John Cotter, Cheryl Lawson Walker, Scott Esposito, Jason Nelson, Daniel Kane, Kimo Armitage, Alan May, J.D. Nelson, Bob Hershon, Jennifer Karmin, Kim Rosenfield, Nathan Austin, Pearl Pirie, Rosmarie Waldrop, Tara Betts, Donald Revell, Jim Ryals, Danuta Kean, Jeff VanderMeer, Alfredo Bonanno, Irene Latham, Michael Hennesy, Dick Higgins, John Hanson, Billy Merrell, Sam Ladkin, Jeff Ward, Debra Jenks, K. Lorraine Graham, Kenji Okuhira, Sean MacInnes, Adam Seelig, Steve Halle, David Mus, Monique Wittig, Joyelle McSweeney, Daniel E. Levenson, Luke Daly, Henry Thoreau, John Palattella, Abby Trenaman, Kristen Taylor, Vassily Kamensky, David Jhave Johnston, Gene Tanta, Cate Marvin, Alison Roth, Shad Marsh, Asher Ghaffar, Henry Gould, Justin Theroux, Susan Grimm, Bernard Wilson, Ateet Tuli, Laura Moriarty, Mark McMorris, Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, William Shakespeare, Nick Trinen, Daphne Gottlieb, Magdalena Zurawski, A.K. Arkadin, Matthue Roth, Douglas J. Belcher, After Bitahatini, Neil Schmitz, Liz Henry, Tom Hansen, Craig Saper, Pris Campbell, Afua-Kafi Akua, Amish Trivedi, Chris Hutchinson, Cath Vidler, Sarah Weinman, A.E. Stallings, Robin Blaser, Roland Prevost, Mac Wellman, Steven Schroeder, Joy Garnett, Mark Lamoureux, Julie Clark, Bob Garlitz, Jeff Hamilton, Kara Dorris, Maureen Thorson, Irv Muchnick, Frank O'Hara, Robin Magowan, C. Allen Rearick, A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz, Tony Leuzzi, Bhanu Kapil, Sage U`ilani Takehiro, Shellie Zacharia, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Camille Martin, Eliot Weinberger, David Nemeth, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Iris Smyles, Bertolt Brecht, David Forbes, Colin Herd, Sergio Bessa, Zach Wollard, Adam Ford, Claudia Keelan, Hank Sotto, Jamba Dunn, Ken Mikolowski, Jean-Jacques Poucel, Santiago B. Villafania, David Valentinovia, Robert Kaufman, Dominique Meens, Joe Elliot, August Stramm, Justin Katko! Sandra Korchenko, Carol Peters, Lilah Hegnauer, Brian Evenson, Wallace Stevens, Timothy Murphy, Joseph Bradshaw, Nick Courtright, Adam Chiles, James, Kane X. Faucher, David Abel, Ray Succre, Gabriel Gudding, Antonin Artaud, Mark Cunningham, Paul Fattaruso, William Saroyan, Aaron McCollough, Confucius/Ezra Pound, David Antin, Rob Mackenzie, Ryan Eckes, Christian Peet, Peter Riley, Litsa Spathi, Anna Ahkmatova, Mark Tursi, J.D. Schraffenberger, Greg Fuchs, Sean Casey, Orpingalik, Hassan Melehy, Rosemarie Waldrop, Phillip Lund, Adam Aitken, Michael Davidson, Andrea Rexilius, William Allegrezza, Raymond Queneau, Fred Wah, Marcia Arrieta, Elizabeth Cross, Jonathan Greene, Gregory Laynor, Preston Spurlock, Jane Sprague, Kevin Thurston, Stephen Berry, William Bronk, Claudia Rankine, Steve Dalachinsky, Ed Sanders, Sam Rasnake, Wes Smiderle, James Belflower, Simmons B. Buntin, Dolores Dorantes, Emilie Clark, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sarah O'Brien, Jack Tricarico, Gerard Van der Luen, Frances Richard, Charlie Bertsch, Bob Cobbing, Sabrina Calle, Steven Burt, Stephane Mallarme, Bob Marcacci, Edwin Torres, Lois Marie Harrod, Evgeny Maizel, Luc Simonic, Lawrence Durrell, Amanda Davidson, Pendergast, Gregory Orr, Lepson, Joseph Duemer, Eric Alterman, Erin M. Bertram, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Suzanne Buffam, Andy Nicholson, Edward Champion, Katy Acheson, Okey Ndibe, Jennifer Mulligan, Renee Zepeda, Alfred Kubin, Sawako Nakayasu, David Prater, Forrest Gander, Mike Gubser, Virginia Heatter, Leslie Winer, Ed Schenk, Doug Holder, Russell Ragsdale, Jose Manuel Velazquez, Dick Jones, Gerry Loose, Daniel J. Vaccaro, Rafael Alberti, Jeff Newberry, Igor Terentiev, Micah Robbins, Friedrich Holderlin, Arif Khan, Laurel Dodge, Ann White, Nicolas Guillen, John Lowther, Cathleen Miller, Josef Vachal, Chris Moran, Miyazawa Kenji, Robert Fitterman, Norman Mailer, Doris Shapiro, Talan Menmott, Alan Licht, John Godfrey, James Maughn, Anne Heide, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Judith Goldman, Rich Murphy, Halvard Johnson, Ariel Dorfman, Ed Baker, Maryrose Larkin, Sheila E. Murphy, Rosanna Warren, Jean Cocteau, Clarence Major, Eleanor Stanford, Teresa Carmody, Kenward Elmslie, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ryan Walker, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Nava Fader, Rob Budde, Allison Cobb, Robert Roley, Alison Collins, Melissa Fondakowski, Nathan Whiting, Jess Rowan, Cid Corman, Bob Heman, Libby Rosof, Cassie Lewis, Scott Saner, Roberta Allen, Raymond Farr, Anne Pierson Wiese, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Troy Lloyd, Lindsay Boldt, Andrea Baker, Meredith Quartermain, Richard Meier, Louise Mathias, Joseph Cooper, Lynn Strongin, Outlines, Suzanne Stein, Richard de Nooy, Sherry, Robert Chrysler, Ton van't Hof, Peter Cole, Michael Slosek, June Jordan, Andrew Zitka, Eve Babitz, G.C. Waldrep, Craig Santos Perez, James Sherry, Hugh, David R. 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My name is there - along with a poem that I didn't even write! I have no idea what kind of farce this is, but I'm glad someone is calling attention to this because it's downright unlawful.

Posted by: rachel mallino on October 3, 2008 9:38 PM

Hoax. The poems, if they are poems, are not by the poets ascribed to them.

Posted by: Aaron Fagan on October 3, 2008 9:40 PM

What I find interesting is not the idea that my work has been appropriated sans permission or profit. Hell, I'm a poet. Wouldn't be the first time. What I find interesting is that my name has been attributed to a poem (or poem fragment) I did not write, as if to suggest that my name has some independent content value. From what I can tell, scanning throughout the manuscript, this had been done throughout. A name has been placed below as poem as if he or she were the author--but mere juxtaposition does not authorship make.

Just for the record.

Cheers,
Sandra Beasley

Washington, DC

Posted by: Sandra Beasley on October 3, 2008 10:01 PM

Howard Stern does shock value much more poetically.

Yay, I'm not in it! Gonna go write a poem now, thanks.

Posted by: Rich Villar on October 3, 2008 10:19 PM

i think this is funny and i approve of it

Posted by: tao lin on October 3, 2008 10:21 PM

This is outrageous. These guys stole over 3,000 of my poems and are passing them off as poems by Rachel Mallino, Sandra Beasley, etc. etc.

WTF??????

I deserve credit and compensation. I hope we can settle this out of court, but if I have to sue to make sure these poems appear under the name of their rightful author, Matt Cozart, I'll do it.

Posted by: Matt on October 3, 2008 10:23 PM

Yeah I was listed and they didn't ask permission nor did they use a poem I wrote but attributed it to me heard another poet complain about the same thing

Posted by: Doug Holder on October 3, 2008 10:41 PM

1) As many as are here, there are some I know of who are not
2) One name appears to be listed three times
3) At least six are listed twice, and maybe more than twelve
4) I wonder which first name appears most often
5) This is amazing nonetheless
6) Most of those listed are new to me, which may tell more
    about me then about the list, but I suspect there may be
   : 15000 or more out there
7) If coming issues are more of the same, we might find out,
    even though those issues too/ include poets who have
    passed
8) Can't speak for others, but thank you to the editors
9) Of course there's a lingering suspicion that this is
    another of Mr. Goldsmith's uncreative writing objects

a ruse ia a ruse ia a ruse

Posted by: Brian Salchert on October 3, 2008 11:05 PM

I said to Nico, who was coming out of the basement: "Did you hear about this 'Issue 1'? You're in it." He said he had, from Harriet, and a number of other e-mail sources. And we sat, and we read it. And if no one else will say it -- I will say it: I'm finally impressed. Not only with the smashing delivery, but all 3,000 poems. They're clearly written by the same person. And I don't believe that it's a computer. Or I'd like to believe it's not. Even if it is, it's rather nice. The repetition, the phrasings. Is it commentary? Possibly. Commentary on the avant-garde? Certainly. But finally, after reading blog after blog and journal after journal, and being involved in academia, and being almost sickened by the ability of smart people to crank out so many unimpressive poems under the subjective lovely umbrella of the "avant garde," -- my eyes are a little open. I'm thinking a little. And this is one journal that I'm not immediately throwing across the room, watching the same tired names repeat the same tired tricks. My most favorite contemporary poets -- Doug Powell, Sarah Manguso, Matthea Harvey, Joshua Beckman, Tessa Rumsey, Oleana Davis, Harry Mathews are beautifully missing -- though to be fair, both Ben Lerner and Nathaniel Mackey -- also faves -- are on the list. Does it say something about exposure, over exposure, over producing of poems? I'm thinking, I"m thinking. And I'm glad to be.

Posted by: Crystal Curry on October 3, 2008 11:51 PM

Same here! My name is listed under a poem I did not write about dragons...

Posted by: Jeannine Hall Gailey on October 3, 2008 11:52 PM

In my case, I really don't care, as the poem said to be included in MP3 version (accessible as such in the archives of an online journal) can't possibly be in the PDF. I mean, those loathsome PDFs don't accomodate audio files, as far as I know; certainly, I couldn't find my Playpoem. So it's really a farce, this whatever it is. Everything else these days is a farce, so why not an "issue" anthology of ... how many poets is it? I did glimpse a few poems and they were excellent. So really, I'm proud not to be in the anthology in which I'm included.

Posted by: Carol Novack on October 4, 2008 12:03 AM

Yep, I did not write the one they credited to me as well.

Kaz

Posted by: Kaz Maslanka on October 4, 2008 12:48 AM

I like this. I think I like my poem but I will have to take another look tomorrow. good idea.

Posted by: ryan on October 4, 2008 12:54 AM

Bizarre! My name is on there, but I don't write poetry. Where did he get my name, and where did he get the poem that my name is signed to?

Posted by: James Bow on October 4, 2008 1:30 AM

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If you don't like this you live in a black-and-white movie.

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What real things are really like.

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Posted by: Stephen Sturgeon on October 4, 2008 2:33 AM

I coulda been a contendah
I coulda been pirated
Instead of the left out which I am
(Thank goodness)

Cheers
Zvi A. Sesling
Brookline, MA

Posted by: Zvi A. Sesling on October 4, 2008 6:16 AM

Saving freight
Their slow freight
At a delivered syllable
Lofty as a weight
Saving
Anny Ballardini

I did not write this.

Posted by: Anny Ballardini on October 4, 2008 6:29 AM

This term -- "poetry community" -- that's an invention for the purposes of this exercise as well, yes?

Posted by: Daniel Nester on October 4, 2008 6:34 AM

Sorry, Kenny G., but this is nothing to
get pissed off about. You & the others
have really pleased me. I love ithe project,
& everyone should!

The protective, snivelling responses seen here are
especially wonderful, as if poets owned
their (or any) words, or names. These folks should
be glad that the editors remembered them at all!
Isn't it an honor to be included?

I'm guessing that Jim Carpenter's "Erika" or some such
program "wrote" most of the poems, since so many of
them reflect the telltale signs of generated works. If anything,
the poems are pirated from that (or whatever) source.
That words such as "scope" appear so frequently is a
sure tip-off to that modality.

Anyway, an enjoyable adventure. Dig the gigantic
magazine! C Funk

Posted by: Chris Funk on October 4, 2008 6:56 AM

This is, of course SHEER GENIUS, and not just because I'm listed first.

The solemn indignation of the three commentators before me here is HILARIOUS.

Posted by: Nada Gordon on October 4, 2008 7:02 AM

Sandra wrote: "...my name has been attributed to a poem (or poem fragment) I did not write.."

I didn't write the lines attributed to me either.

Posted by: Nic Sebastian on October 4, 2008 7:09 AM

This is, of course, absolutely hilarious, and a telling expose of us poets who have our google alerts set to our names, thus dragged into the dragnet of this performance of frustrated narcissism. The joke's on us!

Posted by: Philip Metres on October 4, 2008 7:35 AM

Could you please add that, not only are these unpermissioned and unauthorized, they are not even authored by the "poets" themselves.

Posted by: Ren Powell on October 4, 2008 7:50 AM

Interesting. Each poem seems to center on "like" or "as," as though each poem were trying to capture the poet in a simile. I wouldn't call it a hoax, exactly -- it's free and obviously not composed of stolen poems. More like an immediately apparent performance trick.

David Kellogg
Boston, MA

Posted by: David Kellogg on October 4, 2008 7:57 AM

Here is the comment I posted on my blog, "Sonnets at 4 A.M.":

I received a Google Alert for my name today (October 3, 2008) and found that one of "my" poems was included in an online anthology titled (as nearly as I can tell), ForGodot: Research in Poetry--Issue 1, a 3,785 page pdf document "edited" (or rather, "researched") by three people I don't know named Vladimir Zykov, Steve McLaughlin, and Gregory Laynor.

Here is the poem which is attributed to me on page 3,498 of this document:


Bonnie Winds and Fair Twists

Adored
Like a bird
Like a bonnie wind
To depart left and permission
To perceive velvet and hubbub
To leave forgiving for a right
To leave a privilege of bushes
To stir growing scope

Greg Rappleye

I don't mind someone posting one of my actual poems on their blog or website--as long as it is attributed to me--in fact, I am generally honored to see that someone cares enough about my work to make such an effort and, perhaps, say a kind word.

However, I do object to having my name associated with a steaming turd like "Bonnie Winds and Fair Twists."

For the record: I did not write this poem, did not authorize the use of my name in association with this poem, and I have never heard of these people or their bizarre project. Could I lift a 3,785 page "online anthology," I would drop it on their heads.

Posted by: Greg Rappleye on October 4, 2008 8:05 AM

Here is the comment I posted on my blog, "Sonnets at 4 A.M.":

I received a Google Alert for my name today (October 3, 2008) and found that one of "my" poems was included in an online anthology titled (as nearly as I can tell), ForGodot: Research in Poetry--Issue 1, a 3,785 page pdf document "edited" (or rather, "researched") by three people I don't know named Vladimir Zykov, Steve McLaughlin, and Gregory Laynor.

Here is the poem which is attributed to me on page 3,498 of this document:


Bonnie Winds and Fair Twists

Adored
Like a bird
Like a bonnie wind
To depart left and permission
To perceive velvet and hubbub
To leave forgiving for a right
To leave a privilege of bushes
To stir growing scope

Greg Rappleye

I don't mind someone posting one of my actual poems on their blog or website--as long as it is attributed to me--in fact, I am generally honored to see that someone cares enough about my work to make such an effort and, perhaps, say a kind word.

However, I do object to having my name associated with a steaming turd like "Bonnie Winds and Fair Twists."

For the record: I did not write this poem, did not authorize the use of my name in association with this poem, and I have never heard of these people or their bizarre project. Could I lift a 3,785 page "online anthology," I would drop it on their heads.

Posted by: Greg Rappleye on October 4, 2008 8:06 AM

I'm honored to be included. Yay, Google Alert (TM)! But I wish they'd done a better job - as it is, the thing is just a sincere form of flattery.

Posted by: Don Share on October 4, 2008 8:11 AM

If this is "sheer genius," than the project does succeed in proving what humorless dopes poets are. Making that point isn't much of an accomplishment, though I'm sure the outpouring above will make those guys feel smug.

Posted by: Doodle on October 4, 2008 8:18 AM

I thought this was quite clever. It certainly sounds like the same poet throughout. The poem attributed to me as not bad, actually. All in all, I think this stunt is almost as funny as the Futility Review (www.futilityreview.com).

Posted by: Jeffery Bahr on October 4, 2008 8:29 AM

It's been suggested on another list that the names are those members of blogger.com who have the tag "poetry" associated with them.

When you add to this that the texts are generated, you have (a) something that doesn't need that much effort to produce, since the names were "selected" by a bot trawl, and (b) an anthology that not even the "editors" would have read.

There are some people that not even their mother could love.

Now that it's been done, let's hope that we're spared a repetition of the event.

Robin

Posted by: Robin on October 4, 2008 8:49 AM

This is a boring anthology.

The 'poem' that appears above my name has nothing to do with me. Not my poem. Not my style, not my vocabulary, not my preoccupations, not my language. What's the point here?

The people who compile it give no email address for contacting them. If they were doing a bold experiment, they'd want to be involved in the discussion that ensued.

Annoying, but not interesting.

Chris Mansell

Posted by: Chris Mansell on October 4, 2008 8:49 AM

haven't seen it yet but

i hope it has some new poems by Araki Yasusada in it . . .

Posted by: bill knott on October 4, 2008 8:52 AM

What's most amusing is that Mr. Goldsmith was apparently unfamiliar enough with the work of the thousands of poets in the anthology or whatever that he doesn't see fit to point out that the poems aren't even by the authors listed. Or perhaps he wanted people to figure this out for themselves. In a certain respect, then, I think the "authors" of this have made one of many points. It's good to know people will still hold onto both ends of the Dada rope...

If I were the one making this I would have left out Dana Gioia to make a political and/or aesthetic point. The people doing this dropped the ball on that one.

If this thing burns your britches you need some new hobbies.

Posted by: Mark Lamoureux on October 4, 2008 8:52 AM

This is so funny and kind of cool as well. Love the comments.

Posted by: Wanda Phipps on October 4, 2008 8:59 AM

Yay, one less poem I have to write more my next book. Keep 'em coming typewriter monkeys!

Posted by: Aaron McCollough on October 4, 2008 8:59 AM

Over coffee this morning, approving reader comments (and reading, in another tab, the news of OJ Simpson's trial), I mentioned the anthology to my wife. She has been teaching "The Waste Land" and showed me a line Cal Bedient wrote in his essay "He Do the Police in Different Voices," which speaks nicely to this anthology:

"Perhaps no poem in the language seems more self-aware than "The Waste Land," yet none seems nearly so other-conscious at the same time, so eager to wing off others' words to the one true sphere."

Of interest, somebody wrote these poems. As Crystal Curry notes, possibly a single author. And what a great way to attract an audience, this juke. Likely more people will read this "book" (at least a few poems) than would read most books that make their way into the world. I am happy to participate with a not-poem of my own. Will there be a reading tour? Perhaps the roughly 3,000 poets involved can caravan in buses across this fair land, stopping to read poems they didn't write to strangers who don't want to hear them. Maybe even encountering the stranger who did write them. Fistacuffs!

Posted by: Nick T. on October 4, 2008 9:32 AM

I can't believe these guys rejected the poems I didn't write! What do they mean by "work not yours does not meet our current needs" anyway? And where do they get off telling me they'd be interested in seeing more of what I don't write in the future?

Posted by: Aseem Kaul on October 4, 2008 9:41 AM

Poetry as Panty Raid.

Posted by: Skip Fox on October 4, 2008 10:09 AM

Well, unlike the ones published under my own name a few months ago in Flashpoint Magazine http://www.flashpointmag.com/2xkfp10.htm, I DID write the poem that is attributed to me here. How Goldsmith found it in a little print magazine published four years ago in Venezuela is beyond me. It must be online somewhere. But I'm flattered that he, or whoever might have, took the time to translate it.

Am I the only one who has a real poem in this?

By coincidence (if coincidence there is, in poetry), Kenny Goldsmith only recently blurbed my most recent book, Poetic Architecture: Eleven Quizzes for a Conceptual Poetry Symposium (BlazeVox, 2008). You can order the book through Amazon.

Here's the blurb (also quoted at Amazon), which Kenny kindly sent, perhaps as a joke, thinking, no doubt, that I wouldn't include it...
***

Am I writing this? Maybe I am, and maybe I'm not. I'm a Conceptual Poet, after all... Let me just say that I have shared these "Quizzes" with a few of my fellow Conceptual poets (including Charles "Chuckles" Bernstein and Christian "The Bible" Bok), and we all agree they are silly sophomoric exercises--a fact hardly surprising, since Kent Johnson's resentment-filled forays over the past few years are consistently shallow, misinformed, and shrill. (And hey, Kent, by the way, speaking of ©, I see that you have ©'d the book! What's up with that , Mr. Pure? Care to explain??) In other words, and at the risk of sounding extreme, I strongly encourage readers to ignore this ridiculous piece of attention-seeking dilettantish drivel. Now, let's get on with the real work.

--Kenneth Goldsmith

Posted by: Kent Johnson on October 4, 2008 10:15 AM

Hey, I was just going to write that poem I didn't write. And they already published it. NOT fair.

Posted by: Ana Bozicevic on October 4, 2008 10:26 AM

Roland Barthes might be found chuckling in his grave this morning at all of the poet egos lamenting, laughing over, or wringing their hands about a kind of anthology that appeared on the web this morning (read the irate comments already piling up here). Happily, it appears on a blog called, “For Godot,” which is certainly a play on Beckett’s existential play, “Waiting for Godot.” We’ve waited long enough, and now we’ve decided to start making something “for Godot” since we’re still here, waiting. Might as well do something with all of this waiting, this huge internet, this number of poems in the world. This something fucks with the authority of authorship, assigning poems to published poets that they did not write. My poem, which is not a product of my brain, but is “my” poem now, like it or not, is called, “A broad man” (page 1663); it seems to have actually been written by someone, not computer-generated. On the other hand, poet, Ana Bozicevic, read “her” poem and suspects otherwise; she believes they are computer-generated.

One of the editors, in the comments section of his blog, gives a silly response to the poets writing in:

Gang,

This is quite an interesting coincidence! Apparently you all have the exact same names as the Ed Baker, Weldon Gardner Hunter and Ted Burke with whom we at the forgodot.com editorial team have been in close contact and collaboration.

I apologize on all of our behalf for this misunderstanding.

Vladimir Zykov
forgodot.com

No response would have been better, and yes, more clever than this answer. Let the act of the anthology work for awhile before inciting violence with your simplistic dismissals, I say.

For Godot (my name for the “anthology”) has been announced on numerous blogs this morning, likely because of the huge number of poets’ “work” included in the anthology: 3,164! That amounts to a whole lotta “Google alerts” arriving in folks’ email boxes this morning. Godot finally appears in the form of your displaced self, your immortalized writing, your electronic/electric words made permanent (or until there is no more elect-ricity) — and they’re not even yours! I have to admit, I’m happy to be “included” in this spectacle. That is, this massive joke, this huge undertaking, this attempt at … what?

The last verse of “my” poem, I admit: I dig it:

Handy as a road
Well-kept as a man
Glittering as a man
Eld as a pain

Men will glitter, are rarely well-kept, but can be handy as a road — all thoughts that have made their way into my brain and are running around now, as effects of the joke, the poem-that-is-not mine — exactly what a poem should do: incite to active thought, thought outside the realm of usual-thought. Is it a poem? Yes. Is it mine? Who cares? Did the joke make me read it? Yes. Would I have read it otherwise? In the sea of poems out there, likely not. So, success? Something of it.

I also have to wonder, did these three gentlemen — I don’t know who they are but have a feeling these are not pseudonyms — take their own unpublished manuscripts, put them together, and add poets’ names to each poem, thus producing a “book” that would finally be read by the poetry world? I hope this isn’t the case; I prefer a more romantic option: they’ve been reading the work of three thousand plus poets for the past few years, and they’ve written a poem in response to each poet, attaching the poet’s name to their specially-tailored odes.

Who knows? I guess we’ll have to wait to hear from the researchers themselves (or actually take the time to email them):
Stephen McLaughlin

* Age: 22
* Gender: Male
* Industry: Student
* Occupation: Media Design student, Piet Zwart Institute
* Location: Rotterdam : Netherlands
* stephen.r.mclaughlin@gmail.com

Gregory Laynor

* gdlaynor@gmail.com

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zykov

* vazykov@gmail.com

But somehow, the anthology, For Godot, should simply speak for itself and let Poetry World behave as it will. That’s something to listen out for!

Amy King

Posted by: amy on October 4, 2008 10:28 AM

Ultimately, whose poems are these? Were they authored by these guys? If so, look how they've gotten published poets to read their work.

Being unknown allows one not to worry about who gets pissed off at a person. And now we're thinking and talking about their poems. Fairly clever -- times three thousand.

Amy

Posted by: amy on October 4, 2008 10:44 AM

Class action suit anyone?

Posted by: Andy Dancer on October 4, 2008 10:59 AM

When is the launch?

ak

Posted by: Andrew K on October 4, 2008 11:05 AM

I didn't write the poem attributed to me (nor is it very good), but whatever is happening here is interesting, just like it was interesting when those fake Japanese poems appeared in the Antioch Review. I don't think anyone should lose any sleep over it, and I hope it's just the first step in a twenty-step performance art piece that culminates in something beautiful and moving (i.e., I hope it's a really well-thought-out hoax, rather than just a stunt hacked out in three days on a whim.)

Posted by: Kyle Minor on October 4, 2008 11:12 AM

Awesome.

Posted by: Megan Kaminski on October 4, 2008 11:14 AM

Ah, Kenny is always Kenny.

Posted by: Peter Straub on October 4, 2008 11:16 AM

This is brilliant. I actually read most of it, and it's one of the most compelling books I've read in some time. Kind of like reading poets horoscopes or. The poem attributed to me is right on in its parody/praise and its position in the cycle of the book...I'm thinking something I'd written was put through a few machine grinders then modeled. Here's my guess as to the hand behind it: Lester Oracle. A little bird tells me Lester has been working on a program to make more intuitive poetry generating programs--could this be it? Other times I sense the Yasusada hand too--I don't believe Brooks Johnson was ever a blogger (in resonse the the above poet-blogger theory)...and the praise and or disdain handed out in the poems attributed to his friends and enemies would indicate this. But maybe not, just a guess. Maybe just some new lone gunman..And there are the double entries for certain poets as if to indicate they have a double nature and function in "the community". But maybe its all an accident attached to names. Oh, anyway, this is actually interesting.

Posted by: Poet24 on October 4, 2008 11:22 AM

First guys, could you please make this correction to the poem attributed to me? I had asked for a revision on proofs, but apparently you did not make it. My poem should read:

O steaming turd
O steaming
turd
in a
punchbowl

How
lovely
thy
floateth

Second, I suppose this is some kind of "radical" situationist "detournement"? Oooooh, how radical! At best, a piss poor attempt. And as Slavoj Zizek. argues, (according to Wikipedia) "the kind of distance opened up by detournement is the condition of possibility for ideology to operate: by attacking and distancing oneself from the sign-systems of capital, the subject creates a fantasy of transgression that "covers up" his/her actual complicity with capitalism as an overarching system."

Third, a WHOIS query on the domain name where the PDF is stored (arsonism.org) brings up this registration info:

Domain ID:D104642706-LROR
Domain Name:ARSONISM.ORG
Created On:17-Jul-2004 00:26:37 UTC
Last Updated On:18-Jul-2008 05:04:34 UTC
Expiration Date:17-Jul-2010 00:26:37 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:GoDaddy.com, Inc. (R91-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:GODA-07356165
Registrant Name:Stephen McLaughlin
Registrant Street1:409 Ash St.
Registrant City:Delanco
Registrant State/Province:New Jersey
Registrant Postal Code:08075
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.8567641574
Registrant Email:fakesalt@comcast.net
Admin ID:GODA-27356165
Admin Name:Stephen McLaughlin
Admin Street1:409 Ash St.
Admin City:Delanco
Admin State/Province:New Jersey
Admin Postal Code:08075
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.8567641574
Admin Email:fakesalt@comcast.net
Tech ID:GODA-17356165
Tech Name:Stephen McLaughlin
Tech Street1:409 Ash St.
Tech City:Delanco
Tech State/Province:New Jersey
Tech Postal Code:08075
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.8567641574
Tech Email:fakesalt@comcast.net
Name Server:NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
Name Server:NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
Name Server:NS3.DREAMHOST.COM

If one wants to take action against the owner(s) of the site ARSONIST.ORG, they can do so by going through the registrar GoDaddy.com.

A WHOIS query on the domain FORGODOT.COM is privacy protected by PRIVACYPROTECT.ORG. If anyone wants to take legal action against the site's owner(s), they can complain to the registrar above (GoDaddy) and also, at PRIVACYPROTECT.ORG, there is a form one can fill out to report fraud, spam, or abuse by the site's owner(s) of FORGODOT.COM:

Request Domain Owner Contact Info

1. If any domain is engaged in spam, abuse or any illegal / unlawful activity you may report the same.
2. Please enclose evidence of spam or abuse or the activity in question.
3. Our abuse team will review the complaint and reveal the actual contact information of the owner where appropriate.

And last, if Forgodot.org is plan to sell this anthology, I would like to receive my 1/3164th of the enormous royalties that this lovely publication would certainly bring in. A poetry publication like this would surely be a gigantic best-seller!

Oooh, shiver me timbers! What new rad project will these culture jamming geniuses come up with next? I can hardly wait!

Posted by: Angela G. on October 4, 2008 11:29 AM

I wrote my poem & I'm very proud if it.

Posted by: Mathias Svalina on October 4, 2008 11:37 AM

My name is Edward Champion, and I approve of this experiment. This is a fine litmus test separating the playful types from the dour and humorless ones.

Posted by: edward champion on October 4, 2008 12:14 PM

shit sandwich. good job. everybody be more concerned with fetishizing your poetry in this clusterfuck of a crumbling empire. good job.

Posted by: ryan downey on October 4, 2008 12:27 PM

How revealing all around. On all sides of the aisle, stage, lobby, entrance, street, living rooms, bedrooms, courthouses... (Beginning to sound like old Walt.) A massive gag. I don't believe anyone is hurt but much opportunity has arisen. Meanwhile, someone's having a jolly laugh. Best to us all.

Posted by: Alan Davis Drake on October 4, 2008 12:31 PM

Well, at least the poem they ascribed to me isn't better than what I actually write - that would've been embarrassing. Although, if you do like it, by all means I wrote it! Secretly, I was hoping it would've been about dragons or pirates...preferably pirates
Cheers!
John

Posted by: John Findura on October 4, 2008 12:57 PM

This seems to be little more than, or a close cousin of at least, the usual innocuous vamping on Duchampism, where the signatures associated with works become the objects of investigation, or to be played around with in a way that would mock the obsession over individual creativity and identity in the work; or obsession over the signature considered as a hot art-market commodity. Especially if the poems are mass-produced or "generated" (purposefully created as "ready-made" art-objects) as some people here are suggesting. Duchampism sans provocation or defamiliarization. Neo-Duchampism reduced to dull blog posts and the indifferent digital silence of .pdf files I guess, released (as usual) in the capacity of a resounding dud upon the sacrificial alter where notions of "interesting provocation" are sent to get beheaded.

This is all mildly amusing at the expense of anyone who would actually care that their work was being used in this way I suppose, but it's exactly because hardly anyone does care, or that everyone is "in the know" and "rolling with the punches" of approbation that this doesn't really seem like any kind of avant-gardiste gambit (if that's what it was meant to be). The ultimate effect seems to be that people are happy to see themselves name dropped as poster boy appendages of a rather predictable exercise, a routine circle jerk.

"If an artist today signs a stove pipe and exhibits it, that artist certainly does not denounce the art market but adapts to it" (Bürger).

Here, Duchampism is accepted and utilized as a banalized art practice, further banalized through this release even. Signatures involved in the circulation of this practice adapt to an accepted form of Duchampism and gain allure. The homogeneity of this predictable reception, the inflation and lauding of its general uninventiveness, is a testament to what makes it aesthetically boring. It evokes kind of a "meh" or "feh" more than anything. Perhaps, if we dip into Kenny G's language, it is a "boring boring" moment. It amounts to a large advertisement of 'good' poets, everyone is included, smug as a bug in a rug!

I'm reminded of a phrase from David Riff, in that the ideas behind this surface-provocation seem to be, more than anything, "part of the bourgeois bohemian toolbox, applied in virtuosic bricollage" and thus the application sort of runs counter to any kind of sharp or exciting inventiveness. I mean, can this merry little gesture even be considered a prank? Or clever in any sense?

Emphasizing my point, Mathias Svalina writes:

"This is one of the first good jokes in contemporary poetry. I can't stop laughing at this; its hilarious in so many ways. I'm pretty pleased with my poem in it. I think i'll put it in my next book."

Granted, I'm sure it wasn't meant to be anything more than playful and lighthearted. It just seems uninteresting to me insofar as it is an explicit act of data collation as advertisement as canonization.

Posted by: Margaux Jones on October 4, 2008 1:51 PM

I'm in it, and I'm not pissed off. Does that mean I'm not part of the poetry community?

Posted by: EKSwitaj on October 4, 2008 2:23 PM

I still can't figure out why all these different people are taking credit for poems I wrote. As I explain on my blog:

Well, I knew this would happen sooner or later. Apparently, some scheming ne'er-do-wells have deliberately STOLEN over 3,000 poems from my continuing life-work, The EU Butter Mountains of Old, and have published them as an "anthology" with each poem being credited to a different poet. I knew my genius would not go unexploited by the freedom-hating blogorissimos who infest every corner of this series of tubes, but I'll be goshdarned—GOSHDARNED, I TELL YOU!—if these scalawags don't expect me to fight back. Whoever is responsible for this travesty, hear me now: I will use every resource at my disposal, I will stop at nothing, I will chase you round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares maelstrom and round perdition's flame before I give you up!

Posted by: Matt on October 4, 2008 3:46 PM

Call me "dour and humorless" if you like, but my sense of humor is really not the issue. If someone published an article containing false information about me, I would want it removed from the Web; it is no different for them to claim I wrote a certain poem when I did not.

It is my basic right to protect my name and reputation, and I find it really tasteless that some people would laugh this off as some kind of avant-garde experiment. If my name is to be used in some sort of artistic "experiment," it should be with my permission. To do it without my permission is unethical as well as illegal.

This "anthology" should be taken down immediately. Anyone know a good lawyer who can write a cease-and-desist letter?

Posted by: Danny on October 4, 2008 3:52 PM

Of course, a poem I must have written in my sleep, or computer dreams! Best thing I've written in ages. Or that other Jill Jones is at it again (sheesh). Anyway, I too will publish in my next book.

Sure made me (f)larf this morning, after (I swear this is true) a stupid dream about anthologies. I must get out more.

Posted by: Jill Jones on October 4, 2008 5:22 PM

After a careful study of the 3, 164 names in the table of contents, we've come to the conclusion that poets of color are under-misrepresented in this anthology. We hope the editors will lend a blind eye to this oversight in future niggardly chicanery.

Mendi+Keith Obadike

Posted by: Mendi + Keith Obadike on October 4, 2008 5:52 PM

If you google stephen mclaughlin + new jersey + poetry the first thing that comes up is the ill-fated jessica smith outside voices anthology--he's one of the contributors! finally, the actually funny version of that (and this in general) sad sad farce.

Posted by: robopoet on October 4, 2008 6:09 PM

See, what you guys don't realize is how advanced technology is. We have the technology now to have poems published before they're even written. What you're reading now is happening now.

Posted by: Amish Trivedi on October 4, 2008 6:23 PM

Margaux,

Perhaps “Situationist” is a bit of a stretch, but you give the reception too much credit by putting all of the weight solely on Mathias’ response. Many folks are pissed off, arguing over the use of their names, the poems attributed to them, etc. Check out the comments on the For Godot blog and here on the Harriet blog. It’s ridiculous. No one is making money, people looking for poetry aren’t exactly dying to read the poems within nor are they being turned off of my work because they don’t like “my” poem in the anthology, etc. The joke is situationist in spirit because of the uproar it’s causing within a community that really should not be so devoted to ownership and ego. And you’ll note, I wasn’t exacting a science when I dubbed it Situationist; that was one label among several that I loosely noted *in parenthesis*, rather than proclaiming these guys the new Situationists. Let’s be less stringent and police less, stop being obsessed with 'correct' labels, I think the thrust of this anthology-joke might be hinting at, among other bubbles of infectious laughter produced.

As I wrote on the Poetics listserv:

For what’s it worth, kudos to these three young guys. I imagine they’re students, twiddling their thumbs, trying to imagine how to stir up the poetry world, steeped in some sort of theory (situationist? dada-ist? surrealism? etc), facing the menacing world of “getting published” and making something of themselves as poets, ahem. They’ve decided to take on the death of the lyrical I, the death of the author, the death of paper, the celebration of the internet sea, etc. They’ve done something, though just what isn’t clear and is being debated now (a good effect), but yes, kudos to their efforts to make a mess of the pool of internet muck — it may be only a ripple in the end, but maybe some of the worthwhile work and sites and ideas will get a chance to rise (not necessarily from the anthology) after their pebble has sunk to disappearance.

** Will people be moved away from the complacent world of "I just wanna be a published famous poet" that so often rules in Poetry World? This mentality is the best absorption the capitalist machinery can do with poets and their "products." I doubt this "anthology" will break this cycle and stop poets from thinking in those terms, but at least it's challenging the "my poetry should be published, make me book sale profits, & get me reading gigs" mentality, computer-generated or not. It has at least spotlighted this mentality through it's challenge to ownership & mis-attribution, so again I say, Kudos!

Amy

Posted by: amy on October 4, 2008 6:30 PM

Hate to break it to you Danny, but if you have a blog and you have willingly placed your name on the internet, your name is already being used by countless marketing companies and spammers for all kinds of purposes without your express written permission.

Posted by: Joseph on October 4, 2008 6:51 PM

wasn't there already a mcpoetry name porn situationist joke like this before...called mipoesis magazine or something like that--oh, wait, that was for real.

Posted by: po on October 4, 2008 7:01 PM

Here's something entirely apropos, which went up, apparently, just three or four days before the For Godot anthology: The Mediocre Review, a gathering place for the production of "anonymous, heteronymous, or homonymous texts," as the introductory manifesto proclaims.

The project, school, whatever it is, already has, I just checked, 40 members. Though my name is mentioned as an influence in the introductory "manifesto" (and as the Flarfists and Conceptualists show in practice, why should one not wear the badge of Mediocrity with pride?), I only found out about it two days ago through the grapevine. Maybe both projects are managed by the same team of people?

The group's mission statement follows.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28350273397

The poet is a faker
Who’s so good at his act
He even fakes the pain
Of pain he feels in fact.
--Fernando Pessoa

I want to collect and edit anonymous, heteronymous, or homonymous short texts. Of course this is ethically questionable under the umbrella of private property, a unified sense of self, and to any one left holding a stake. I don’t care whether you’re an insider who thinks she’s an outsider or an outsider who thinks she’s an insider. I am unique, just like everyone else.

Without the brand of your name, the question of aesthetic hierarchy verbs you: it frees you of the burden and benefit of how what you’ve done makes who you are. I hope this fashion of editorial work and publication catches on because we need less efficient ways to handle each other as we gaze down the long horror-corridor of “us” versus “them.” Virginia Woolf said anon. has more often than not meant women authors and more recently Kent Johnson and Patricia Smith have questioned the political use of identity in the valuation process of cultural artifacts.

These are the authorless texts that matter because even though we may be up to our consciousness in arbitrary signification and biography, language can titillate and tantalize in substantive and transformative ways. Post-ironic as this may sound, without faith, wisdom and its pleasurable play is just information in the cosmos between your ears. With faith comes the yoke of progress and the pageant of heritage dressed in the drag of political agenda.

The Mediocre Review offers writers and readers the opportunity to erase themselves and by such biographical suicide to give their texts a measure of independence and life. Putting intention aside as unknowable, Cioran is wrong: there should be a hierarchy of suicides but not between the range of noble to vulgar but between the useful and useless.

In the spirit of Nietzsche’s call for a revaluation of all values or in the spirt of Dada's call for going back to primitive sounds, let’s make new beauty that makes the right people uncomfortable.

Sincerely,
Armando

Posted by: Kent Johnson on October 4, 2008 7:09 PM

I hope this is one of KG's pieces - it reads and looks like it and is absolutely wonderful - in a sense it's really the first new media writing I've seen. Amazing! - Alan

Posted by: Alan Sondheim on October 4, 2008 7:16 PM

Hey. Cool. I don't quite get the poem attributed to me, but maybe I'll put it on my vita.

Bob

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