[Ed Shacklee]

Good sleuthing there, Janice. It's like tracking a snail, I think. Not that it matters much, male or female, but listed under Cassey Wolsh's "works" on Poem Hunter is "the sassy lady of calgary."

Best,

Ed

[Michael Juster]

Poem Hunter used to be loaded with malware--be careful.

[Ann Drysdale]

Looks as though they've been up for six years and the name's an anagram of "sly showcase". Fancy nobody noticing till now.

[Ed Shacklee]

Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale

Looks as though they've been up for six years and the name's an anagram of "sly showcase". Fancy nobody noticing till now.

Ha! Admiration.

Ed

[Janice D. Soderling]

Aren't you clever, Ann. I would never have figured out it was an anagram. Six years, eh? That is probably a record.

I'll bet that if one had the time to explore that site, one would find a lot of falsely labeled work alongside the lousy stuff and the usual posted-without-permission poems.

Ross is also clever. I couldn't figure out how to get in touch with them. Let us know what happens.

Ed, it is quite possible that for that very reason the thief is male.

I think JVC was a wonderful poet. If anyone reading this doesn't know his work, I encourage you to learn more about his work.

A FB friend (to me and to many here) posted a JVC poem today and I got inspired to take down my JVC Collected and put in some quality read time. But I couldn't find the poem in the ToC of what was supposed to be "collected".

So I googled and that is how this stolen cache turned up. And when I looked at the other poems in it, I recognized most of them easy peasy. But not the Ralph Angel poems. He is a new acquaintance and I'm glad to find out about him. He has some fine work online and good publications.

And although I remembered having read the "Inspector" poem by John Allman I couldn't remember his name or where I had read it. That poem wasn't easy to locate but finally I found it and his name.

Mike, I know about the malware because you have warned us before. But I trust my virus protection and it didn't give a warning. Although I had to back out of another site I visited when sleuthing.

There is one poem on that "Wolsh" site which I did not recognize and could not find. Cassey Wolsh took credit for it, but I find it all over the blog world with the author listed as "unknown" or "anonymous". I think it is too modern to be "anonymous" but on that I can only speculate.

[Susan McLean]

One can only speculate about what kind of pathetic longing for attention and/or malicious need to trick and feel superior to others leads people to plagiarize famous poems and post them as their own. Since the person in question seems to be using a pseudonym, it is not quite the same sort of theft as those of people who have tried to pass off others' work as their own in order to win contests. It runs less risk of getting caught and held accountable, but without any significant benefit to the plagiarist except that of feeling above those he or she has tricked.

Susan

[Norman Ball]

I'll have more on this subject when my colleague wraps up his final draft.

[Esther Murer]

Change the name of the site to Poem Poacher?