Steven Ford Brown - Foetry

Foetry

In 2004 Brown became active with the website Foetry.com, a movement started by Alan Cordle that criticized the incestuousness of American MFA literary programs and corruption in literary contests, particularly at the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, University of Iowa fiction and poetry contests and the University of North Texas Vassar Miller Prize contest. His efforts were primarily centered at the University of Iowa Press Poetry and Fiction Prize contests and the University of North Texas Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. He also provided background interviews for major articles on Alan Cordle and the Foetry.com movement that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Los Angeles Times. In 2005 an interview of Brown, “Foetry.com And What Academia Doesn't Want You to Know About the Creative Writing Industry,” appeared in VOX, an experimental literary journal based in Oxford, Mississippi, and was later reprinted in Left Curve, a literary journal based in San Francisco.