The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70058   Message #1193041
Posted By: Amos
24-May-04 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mudcat's Best Poet Contest
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat's Best Poet Contest
Actually, I don't know if there's anyway to make an adjudication; there is an awful lot of stuff out there that might pass structurally but be of little value cognitively, to use the term loosely, and even more stuff out there that might have some sort of cultural value cognitively while being a ocmplete mess structurally. Even unstructured poetry has rules, sometimes explicit and sometimes tacit. There is a discipline to it that gets trampled in the rush to print (believe me, I have been there). All this makes it really hard to pass judgement anonymously and harder to do so overtly.

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