What really pisses me off - and it isn't even touched on in the article - is that much of the drain on our formal poetry resources was disguised by outsourcing great chunks of the octave, including a critical envelope rhyme scheme, to HS Enterprises of Texas; and HS turns out to be - you guessed it! - HALISONNET - a newly formed Haliburton subsidiary which, coincidentally, is run by former NEA employee and Gioia protege, Dan Stone. And then, after almost $100 million was distributed by HaliSonnet (much of it unaccounted for - $15 million alone, for example, apparently spent with a right wing sonnet consultant and vouchered only by a handwritten note signed "Paul"), an unexplained decision was made to switch to a Shakespearean scheme. The more you dig, the worse this looks.
[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited September 12, 2008).]
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