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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
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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