Foetry: American Poetry Watchdog

Exposing the fraudulent "contests."

Tracking the sycophants.

Naming names.

Bin Ramke

• has won the Iowa Poetry Prize twice.
• and published in Kuhl House Poets series at Iowa, edited by Jorie Graham.
• regularly selects Iowa graduates and other winners of the Iowa Poetry Prize for the series he edits at the University of Georgia Press.
• lives in Colorado.
• Although the above connections are nebulous, it looks like a symbiotic relationship to the folks at Foetry.
• No longer nebulous, the Contemporary Poetry Series is often a large-scale fraud operation. See the list of winners and the judges who selected them.