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The Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest is inspired by Wergle's creator, poet David Taub. Mr. Taub has submitted various absurd poems to poetry.com's former contest to see what would happen. Click the links to read the poems, and the responses.
One of our 2003 Wergle Flomp honorable mention poems, "The Most Exquisite Corpse", elicted fawning sales pitches from both poetry.com and Noble House. The latter had presented itself as an independent international publisher, but was in fact just another name for Watermark Press of Owings Mills, Maryland, the parent of poetry.com. Watermark Press went out of business in 2009.

Here are more good spoofs from around the web:
"Dawn of a New Eve" at WockyJivvy
"Thinking of you..." by Dave Barry
The Freemont Poetry Project



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Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest
2009 Wergle Flomp Results

Congratulations to our 2009 winners "Randy Cousteau", Louis K. Lowy and Lenny Lianne, and our 12 honorable mentions and 12 finalists.

First Prize - $1,359
"Randy Cousteau"
The Felching of the Oct'pus

Second Prize - $764

Louis K. Lowy
Poetry Workshop (Mary had a little lamb)

Third Prize - $338
Lenny Lianne
Hurl

Honorable Mentions - $72.95 each
Janette Berry
Paul Hlava
Johnson John
Benjamin Taylor Lally
M.S. Sukumaran Nair
Rachel S. Neal
John Poch
Lisa Rigdon
Debra Shulkes
Fara Spence
Tammy Tillotson
James K. Zimmerman

Finalists
H.L. Bessinger
Kenzo Kon Dedaņ-Duozhu
Sarah Evans
Lamar Hedgepeth
Tim Kimbirk
Todd Lee
Barbara Lefcowitz
John McKernan
Jesse Nieboer
Jim O'Brien
Senyo Whyte
Graham Younger




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