A straight, white poet pretended to be “a gender-fluid” Nigerian named Adele Nwankwo, along with other similar personas, to get his intentionally awful work published. Poet Aaron Barry wrote poems that were blatantly “trash,” exposing the systematic racism against white writers in the literary scene.
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Sounds like a case of: "what's good for the baboon goose is good for the cracker gander".
ReplyDeleteAll their scams are being played on them and I think it's great.
ReplyDeleteFuck those that haven't earned it
JD
That's fucking hilarious!! More power to him!
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There have been numerous examples of "failure to fail" in the world of "art". The Producers is a satirical play about the making of a play that was designed to bomb but didn't. And Rocky Horror Picture Show was so God-awful it became a cult classic that picks up a new rabid audience every generation.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that is still running.
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