From the Boston Globe:

DOES POETRY NEED muckrakers? The secretive operators of the website Foetry (www.foetry.com), a self-described “American poetry watchdog,” certainly think so. They promise, from behind a cloak of anonymity, to uncover scandals among the publishers of contemporary poetry, dishing dirt on “fraudulent `contests,”’ as their homepage has it, “tracking the sycophants,” “naming the names,” and generally cleaning house…

…Foetry reads like a cross between the Drudge Report and Consumer Reports, anonymously investigating (and spreading) rumors to further the cause of transparency. Its longest-running debate spotlights the prestigious New York-based magazine and book publisher Fence, lately a magnet for writers of difficult verse, which shows Iowa roots both on its masthead and in its choice of young poets. On the site’s discussion board, Fence founder Rebecca Wolff, who attended UMass-Amherst and Iowa, explained the submission process in numbing detail, writing that “the preponderance of Iowans” proves only “that those of us who judge these contests are in some kind of agreement with those who make the decisions about who goes to the Iowa Writers Workshop.” One reader responded by suggesting, absurdly, that Wolff be charged under racketeering laws.