[Janice D. Soderling]

I am putting up this thread because I am a devoted fan of J.V. Cunningham. And because I detest plagiarists.

By accident I discovered a few poems by JVC were published under a false name, and looking further found several poets also plagiarized by the same person Cassey Wolsh (which is likely not a real name) on Poem Hunter. Does anyone know who is behind this site?

There is extensive purloining of JVC's numbered poems from from "A Century of Epigrams".

"Cassey Wolsh" has claimed these poems #29, "53, #55, #62, #76, and not only are they published under his name, there are even recordings. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29...-despair_music

Looking further, I quickly recognized a passel of other poems purportedly by the same author. I read a lot of poetry and I have a pretty good memory.

Wolsh, he or she, (but I'm guessing "he") claims to have written every word of Gallway Kinnell's "Wait" http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x29m7z4_cassey-wolsh-but-no-one-is-tired-enough_music

I also recognize a poem "The Real Inspector" which is actually by John Allman but is published at Poem Hunter as "He Tipped His Bowler" and credited to this slimy little jerk. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/he-tipped-his-bowler/

Two were purloined from Ralph Angel http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-swear-it/

This Angel poem
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/every-direction

was retitled Quiet From Fleeing http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/quiet-from-fleeing/

This person is so stupid that he or she doesn't understand that famous poems are easily recognized. (But what about the person behind this site; shouldn't they know enough to recognize goods stolen from Frank O'Hara http://www.poetryfoundation.org/arch...ra_painter.pdf when someone posts it under another name http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poet-am-i-2/

Or the iconic Stevie Smith's Not Waving But Drowning here called "Poor Chap" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poor-chap-2/


This one, of which the rightful author is Richard Howard and which was published in the Iowa Review http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent....ext=iowareview is presented under the name of cassey walsh with the title It Does Not Keep http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-does-not-keep/

And D.J. Enright's "How Many Devils Can Dance on the Point..." http://transparent-hummingbird.net/enrighthell.htm was broken into several individual poems.

This thief has also taken credit for a Wallace Stevens poem, The Anecdote of a Jar" (should we laugh or cry) after moving it to Calgary from Tennessee. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-jar-2/

I placed a jar in Calgary
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Calgary