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Posted on 07/17/2025 6:05:30 AM PDT by dynachrome
A poet said his career skyrocketed within the liberal literary scene by taking on minority personas to promote his work to publishers.
Aaron Barry, 29, of Vancouver, experienced the most success when he posed as writers with identities far from his own, even if the poems were blatantly 'trash.'
His reasoning behind the scheme was simple - to prove the poetry world is more concerned with writers' identities than the quality of their work.
'My thinking was that, if the industry - from small magazines to full-on publishing imprints - could get away with showing a clear preference toward certain groups and, in that same vein, a clear bias against other groups,' Barry began to DailyMail.com.
'Then there was nothing to say that such power couldn't be abused in the future, whether it be to adhere to shifting trends or politics, or to discriminate against additional demographics.
'Such treatment would leave writers in a state of peril and anxiety, forever having to look over their shoulders while navigating their careers.'
From 2023 to 2024, Barry had managed to fool 30 respected literary journals around the globe and got about 50 of his 'nonsensical' poems published.
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Hilarious. Not just poetry. Maybe some of you would like to try your hand at this.
ROTFL! One of the bennies of the New Amerika. You can be whatever you want. Intelligence, I.Q. and Diplomas don’t mean a thing.
Ha! Probablya good strategy for any profession these days. Pretty soon there will be so many fake “gender neutral queen professionals” that the movement will fade away lol
Vancouver BC or Vancouver WA?
The intro of the award-worthy piece, titled Shakespeare's C*msl*t, reads: 'To ?️ or not to ?️ William Shakespeare’s ??? little c*msl*t ??? : that is the question.
It was published in the Tofu Ink Arts Press, which has a mission of 'amplifying the voices of the under-represented.
BC. No one outside of WA knows of the other. There is also a Vancouver in MO.
When I saw the title, I was certain it would be an article from the Babylon Bee.
Smart to turn the game back on them.
Laz, you might have to expand your list of things you’d “hit.”
Literary success does not come easily.
Many years ago (1985), at U of Chicago, some friends and I published a newspaper that made a bit of a ruckus at the time. One of the parody articles was an interview with a “gay poet” whose poems (”Space”, “Typelessness”, “Emptiness”, and “[Untitled]”) had no words.
During the “interview”, Spaniel revealed he wasn’t really gay. He aspired to be, he pretended to be, but it just wasn’t in the jeans.
Real life follows fiction. Movie called American Fiction (2023) is about a black author; real life here, even more absurd.
Jeans? Good one.
“Hilarious. Not just poetry. Maybe some of you would like to try your hand at this.”
I tried this on a job resume. I got the interview and when the black, female HR manager came into the office and saw me, the look on her face was precious. For the entire interview, she kept looking at me like she smelled crap. Knowing she cannot openly ask my race, she finally said it. “On your resume it says you are African American, however you do not fit the characteristics of an African American.” When I told her I was born in South Africa so that makes me an African American, she was angry and told me the interview was over.
Legally, I had the company by the short hairs but all I did was quote MLK on color of skin and content of character.
Who was the fellow in the 1960s I think that pretended to be something he wasn’t and loads of people fell for it. I vaguely remember him being interviewed by Long John Nebel or similar.
Reminds me of Eddie Murphy’s Reggae“street poet” skit:
“Kill the white peoples
Kill the white peoples
Kill
Kill
Kill”
I have a friend whose parents are about 1/4 black, from South Africa. They look like light skinned blacks.
His siblings mainly look like light skinned blacks.
One looks African black with blue eyes
He has tannish skin but blue eyes and board straight light brown hair.
He always stuggled checking the box.
Didn’t particularly matter, as he is a good engineer and we barely make eye contact with people. But it frequently came up.
Does he look at your shoes when talking to you?
If so, he's the extrovert!
;)
Second time today I’ve been called a nobody. Nobody wants the Epstein client’s list released and now this...
I’d hit anything concave.
Open pipe? I’d hit it.
Snake’s mouth? I’d hit it.
Refractor telescopr lens? I’d hit it.
What I WON’T hit is anything convex. No gender queer stuff for me.
Rarely, and only with other engineers...
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