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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
January 31, 2005
The Fourth Annual Wergle Flomp Writing Contest
Adam Cohen of the Wergle Flomp Writing Contest suggests readers of this site might be interested in Wergle Flomp. It's a competition to see who can write the worst poem that is still accepted by other poetry writing contests. Previous winners can be found here, here, and here.
This seems unkind, but unkind in a way I enjoy.
CLARIFICATION: The unkindness here is to silly/scam poetry contests, not poets. See here. Any poems submitted to Wergle Flomp are submitted by the authors themselves.
A Tiny Revolution's official position on poets is: we like them a lot. We have seriously considered setting up an official Poetry Day of the Week, in which we will weekly post a good poem. This may still happen.
Indeed, sometimes we ourselves... uh, never mind.
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