|
Notices |
It's been a while, Unregistered -- Welcome back to Eratosphere! |
|
|
01-24-2017, 06:18 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 651
|
|
Trump poetry contest at NY Times
The New York Times put out a call for poems about Donald Trump. Here's the link. Just passing this along in case it's of interest, e.g. to D&A folks.
Nausheen
|
01-24-2017, 08:59 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Edwardsville, IL
Posts: 165
|
|
How does one enter?
As a comment?
|
01-25-2017, 11:11 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 6,761
|
|
Dump the Trump!
I see this morning that Andrew Frisardi, Susan McLean and I have anti-Trump verses up at the New York Times contest. I checked yesterday and today; there may be others by our gang.
__________________
Ralph
|
01-25-2017, 01:02 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Canada and Uruguay
Posts: 5,857
|
|
Mine's up now. HERE.
old turks
perks
quirks
smirks
irks
jerks
Last edited by Catherine Chandler; 01-25-2017 at 01:05 PM.
|
01-26-2017, 08:54 AM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Iowa City, IA, USA
Posts: 10,090
|
|
I have seen the poems of Andrew, Catherine, Ralph, and J.D. Smith, but there are so many hundreds of poems posted on the site that I don't have time to read them all (and I have to confess that many of them do not repay reading, especially those in rhyme and meter by people who don't know how to use rhyme and meter). A free-for-all like this can be a public service, a sort of therapeutic venting session, but it is not the place to find good satiric verse. I suspect that its purpose is mainly to lure in new subscribers to the newspaper.
Susan
|
01-26-2017, 09:59 AM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: The Borders, Andalucia and Italy
Posts: 1,537
|
|
I - eventually - found mine, but it was a somewhat mind-numbing search. Not only such a torrent of poor poetry, but such an avalanche of repetition and multiple submission. If the NYT did it for circulation, they - or at least some unfortunate sub-ed. - is certainly going to pay in literary agony for any advantage gained. It will be interesting to see if any 'story/feature' ever emerges from this. I suspect not.
|
01-26-2017, 01:53 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: New York
Posts: 16,475
|
|
I just posted a few, though I don't know how long it will take for them to be approved (assuming they will be).
|
01-26-2017, 03:29 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Edwardsville, IL
Posts: 165
|
|
no reflection on the fine sphereans who have submitted but I do believe Susan sees it clearly as self-casting click-bait
|
01-26-2017, 03:47 PM
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Quiet Corner, CT
Posts: 423
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Susan McLean
I have seen the poems of Andrew, Catherine, Ralph, and J.D. Smith, but there are so many hundreds of poems posted on the site that I don't have time to read them all (and I have to confess that many of them do not repay reading, especially those in rhyme and meter by people who don't know how to use rhyme and meter). A free-for-all like this can be a public service, a sort of therapeutic venting session, but it is not the place to find good satiric verse. I suspect that its purpose is mainly to lure in new subscribers to the newspaper.Susan
|
Yeah, I came up with two rhyming lines driving to work and posted them. Then quickly wished I had spent some time revising, revising, revising.
Nonetheless, it seems like good fun, and no one is required to buy a subscription. However, if we all start finding our email inboxes filled with solicitations, then we will know what this was all about.
I would like to take Kristof at his word: he's done this before, as he states in his piece. Maybe he wants to see what his readers are thinking. After all, only those who post a comment are reading them, I'll bet.
I feel sorry for the intern reading and posting all of them, if that is what's happening. Of course, I would imagine that the NYT has the money to buy software that searches for key no-no words and then publishes acceptable poems. My submission took twelve hours to show up.
For me, I'm still revising my epigram. I may have something for a long-eared website I know.
Cheers,
Greg
|
01-26-2017, 06:04 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 6,761
|
|
11/9
=
9/11
=
911
__________________
Ralph
Last edited by RCL; 01-28-2017 at 07:06 PM.
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Member Login
Forum Statistics:
Forum Members: 8,399
Total Threads: 21,839
Total Posts: 270,784
There are 2641 users
currently browsing forums.
Forum Sponsor:
|
|
|
|
|
|