RATTLE's David Alpaugh on what's wrong with poetry book contests.

David Alpaugh of RATTLE (both a poetry contest judge and winner) wrote this article about poetry book contests--particularly fascinating is how poets, in order to win, subject their work to a type of homogenized conformity in terms of quality and presentation: http://www.rattle.com/blog/2008/11/12/essay-whats-really-wrong-with-poetry-book-contests-by-david-alpaugh/#more-163

[Thanks to Northern California poet Garrett Murphy for forwarding this to me.]