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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 ongoing 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 presents itself as an independent international publisher, but is in fact just another name for Watermark Press of Owings Mills, Maryland, the parent of poetry.com.

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
2007 Wergle Flomp Results

Congratulations to our 2007 winners Erica Angle-Newman, C.Wayne Lammers and Ed Coonce, and our 12 honorable mentions and 12 finalists.

First Prize - $1,359
Erica Angle-Newman
Pumpernickel

Second Prize - $764

C. Wayne Lammers
The Castration of Sam McGee

Third Prize - $338
Ed Coonce
And Now, The News

Honorable Mentions - $72.95 each
Tina Blevins
Hilary Hanson
Julie Henson
Amber Herrick
Brad Hostetter
Benjamin Taylor Lally
Nicole Lawler
Rick Lupert
Aunty Myrtle
Greg Schwartz
Arthur Virnig
Cory Zimmerman

Finalists
Jennifer Crohn
Laura Harris-Hirsch
Ron Hayes
Alistair Isaac
Constance Lambson
Michael Mendes
Sarah Olano
Samantha Stewart
Benny Walter
Amy Yerkes
Anonymous ("Marine salads...")
Anonymous ("I looked out the window...")




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