The Poetry Police

The secretive operators of the website Foetry (www.foetry.com), a self-described “American poetry watchdog,” are out to clean up poetry. They promise, from behind a cloak of anonymity, to uncover scandals among the publishers of contemporary poetry, dishing dirt on “fraudulent `contests,”‘ as their homepage has it, “tracking the sycophants,” “naming the names,” and generally cleaning house.