Your Privacy at Risk!

This is the true story of how Go Daddy and Domains by Proxy revealed my confidential information to the world.

For about a year, I anonymously ran Foetry: a website that shocked people. Pulitzer prizewinners, Macarthur Fellows, and Poet Laureates engaged in widespread cheating at the expense of thousands of other poets.

The site was featured in articles for the Boston Globe, the New York Times Book Review, and on major literary websites, such as MobyLives, all without my name attached. In fact, I successfully maintained my privacy for about one year.

Meanwhile, poets were fuming. How dare this anonymous voice expose their antics! A site was launched called whoisfoetry, which along with multiple bad guesses as to my identity, made it easy to complain to Domains by Proxy about my alleged wrongdoing.

A minor poet and Boise State University professor named Janet Holmes actively engaged in trying to "out" me because I had dared to question the judging of two rounds of the Sawtooth Prize contest she runs at Ahsahta Press. As a whistleblower, I revealed that in two consecutive years, she allowed fraud to take place at an Idaho state higher education institution. She was furious.