Naming of Parts. Poetry Month

[maggiethecat]

Can anyone come up with a name for the Writing Award? The Cooker Prize is the best I can come up with right now, and I know that it's Seriously Lame. I will spring for the prize myself. Knock yourselves out.

Thank you all for your entries. It should come as a surprise to no one at eGullet that many of you seem to be channeling William Burroughs or Hunter Thompson. Or Shelley.

And I'm a softie about deadlines. So, if you're moved, I'll adjust midnight to the furthest time zone. Write.

I am serious about wanting your ideas for future writing assignments, sacred and profane. Shoot me a PM.

It's National Poetry Month (April, being the cruelest of course, all that memory and desire...and Shakespeare's birthday falls within) I just realized that my topic line is the title of a great poem by Henry Reed. Check it out if you don't know it.

Or just write a limerick...first line ends with artichoke? Poussin? Otto? Tourist?

[Dynaround]

How about the eGulitzer Prize?

[indiagirl]

Gobble Prize in Literature. OK. That was lame.

[KateW]

I like that!

[elyse]

Cute idea, Dynaround.

[maggiethecat]

How about the eGulitzer Prize?

That's funny!

[maggiethecat]

I've also received "The Golden Gulley" and "The eGulleTrophy." Hmmm...what would the award look like? A Gilded Gulley?

[Fat Guy]

I don't think anybody is going to beat eGulitzer. It's just too good. We could probably, however, call the eGulitzer the Golden Gully as a colloquial reference, kind of how the Academy Awards are also the Oscars.

[Marlene]

I've also received "The Golden Gulley"  and "The eGulleTrophy."  Hmmm...what would the award look like?  A Gilded Gulley?

A gilded frying pan?

[elyse]

Do we have to pronounce eGullet differently now?

[mogsob]

A Brief Ode to the First Pimm's

When I awoke to this fine April morning;

And stole from my true beloved’s lips a kiss;

Fifteen plus degrees centigrade at dawning;

True English spring this.

At the pub awaits the first Pimm’s of the year;

Down a dark alley in the square mile for me;

To drink with friends and toast the spring and order

One – nah, make it three!

[jersey13]

I think just 'Gullitzer Prize' is nice. It's close enough to Pulitzer for people to get the reference. "Hey I won the Gulitzer for best linguini sonnet!" sounds kewl.

[maggiethecat]

A Brief Ode to the First Pimm's

When I awoke to this fine April morning;

And stole from my true beloved’s lips a kiss;

Fifteen plus degrees centigrade at dawning;

  True English spring this.

At the pub awaits the first Pimm’s of the year;

Down a dark alley in the square mile for me;

To drink with friends and toast the spring and order

  One – nah, make it three!

Mogsob:

Thank you for this, on this fine April Morning. I really love it, and I don't know it.

Is it by Reed?

If it's by you, you have officially knocked me out.

Hmmmm. Pimm's. Might have to swing by the liqour store.

[maggiethecat]

Do we have to pronounce eGullet differently now?

No. We have to pronounce Pulitzer differently now!

[Peter B Wolf]

" The Golden 'GULA' Archipelago Prize "

'Gula' / Latin for Gullet

[mogsob]

A Brief Ode to the First Pimm's

When I awoke to this fine April morning;

And stole from my true beloved’s lips a kiss;

Fifteen plus degrees centigrade at dawning;

True English spring this.

At the pub awaits the first Pimm’s of the year;

Down a dark alley in the square mile for me;

To drink with friends and toast the spring and order

One – nah, make it three!

Mogsob:

Thank you for this, on this fine April Morning. I really love it, and I don't know it.

Is it by Reed?

If it's by you, you have officially knocked me out.

Hmmmm. Pimm's. Might have to swing by the liqour store.

It is a Mogsob original (hence, the brevity). The proof is that it has never before been 15 degrees on an April morning in London!

I did indeed enjoy my first Pimm's of the year at the Jamaica Wine House that afternoon, but sadly as I returned for a second, they were OUT!

[Dynaround]

Thanks for choosing the eGulitzer Prize. I can't wait for some other name to invent. I think I'm finding my niche