Talk:Jorie Graham
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[edit] Cronyism in juried awards
We need to include the fact that this woman has been caught repeatedly acting as a judge in literary contests and giving prizes to her students, friends, and even her husband. Applicants to these contests usually have to pay money to enter, which is redistributed as prize money. This is blatant favoritism and unfair for a judge to give awards and cash prizes to friends. I know Foetry.com is slanted against Graham, but they're not lying when they say they have proof that she's done this in the past. These are valid criticisms and need to be included here.
http://foetry.com/2006/04/incredible-hypocrisy-at-harvard.html
[edit] Criticisms section
I (anonymous user, NOT associated with Foetry and am leaving that stuff out for now) put back the section critical of Graham's work. Walt Hunter seems to have come through and turned this into a Graham love-fest without actually saying anything useful about the poetry itself. I'm not able to add much either, but at least we should have some kind of balance...
[edit] Criticism is not Criticism
Someone needs to come through (I may at some point) and fix the section labeled "Criticism." It isn't criticism in the literary sense of the word. It's just reviews, which end up being redundant with the section above. "Criticism" implies a study of Graham's work, either article or monograph length. Anyone here have access to a search engine that would bring up any of these?
[edit] Major restructuring
Added a separate section on Foetry.com. Moved all reviews and blurbs into appropriate section. Criticism section still empty. Added links to sites on which sample poems can be viewed (can anyone verify whether or not Plagiarist.com is legal? I thought yes, but suddenly wonder). Removed many reviews and blurbs, esp. those without citation. Too much on Foetry? Probably should have own article. I'm not going to write it (afraid it would start endless POV wars, given the nature of some posters at that site).
Additional question - should we delete most of the external links? They're not so much reviews as places to buy Graham's books.
[edit] Removed plagiarist.com and paragraph
Members of Foetry.com noted that plagiarist.com is a paper-mill-like site, perhaps inappropriate (unless used in an ironic sense) as a source for viewing Graham's poetry. Bugzita added a disclaimer paragraph regarding plagiarist.com. In the spirit of KISS, I thought it made more sense to simply eliminate the link to plagiarist.com and keep the link to the Academy of American Poets website. No explanation necessary. A separate page on plagiarist.com might be in order, and the removed paragraph would fit better there.
This has also prompted me to wonder whether the explanatory material in the Foetry.com controversy section is necessary. At this time, since Foetry HAS to be there but there is no Foetry.com entry on wikipedia that I can link to, I'm leaving it in. Other thoughts?
[edit] Full name
I reverted User Quentinmatsys's name change, as I have been unable to find any sources that refer to Jorie Graham as Jorie Pepper Graham-Galvin. While her parents' last name was Pepper, and her husband's last name is Graham, I find no indication that she uses a hyphenated last name, nor that she goes by Pepper as a middle name. The information regarding her parents and marriage ought to suffice. I left a message to this effect on Quentinmatsys's talk page 7 days ago and haven't heard anything, so I'm going ahead and making the change.
