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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Examples

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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
2011 Wergle Flomp Results

Congratulations to our 2011 winners John M. Harris Jr., Charles Doyle and Alicia Ruskin, and our 12 honorable mentions and 15 finalists.

First Prize - $1,500
John M. Harris Jr.
The Flight Line Commedia

Second Prize - $800

Charles Doyle
T'was the Week After Doomsday

Third Prize - $400
Alicia Ruskin
Speaking of Speaking

Honorable Mentions - $75 each
Stuart Anderson and Nancy Lee
Janette Berry
Paula Camacho
Jeff Cooke
Megan Elaine Davis
Wayne Edwards
Randy Gross
Kathleen Lynch
J.S. McTuile
Jennifer Moore
Lauren Singer
Amoja Sumler

Finalists
Catherine Affleck
Emmalina Bear
John Crowley
Dale Dewoody
Alice Friman
Corey Ginsberg
Tim Goldstone
George Grace
Danica Green
Rick Lupert
Dennis McLelland
Hope Murphy-Nanton
John Nuck
Marilyn Gear Pilling
Lauren Walker




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