Breaking News: Erik Loomis continues to not be fired. This has been reported by one "Oliver Darcy," pictured.
But of course there are even greater threats than Loomis out there. For reals. Believe it. There is, for instance, Alessandro Porco of UNC-Wilmington, who has published poetry. Or even worse: poetry verse.
The University of North Carolina-Wilmington has hired an English
literature professor whose pornographic poetry verse include fantasies
of sexual relations with freshmen female students, an education watchdog
reported this week.
In Prof. Alessandro Porco’s poem “Hot Girl-Girl Action University” the
fictional university president Jill Kelly offers a welcome to the
freshman class.
“Who would say No to a gang-bang?
Who would say No to Prof. Poon-Tang?
Who would say No to my scholarly toungin’?
Thank you fathers for your daughters.”
That poem is part The Jill Kelly Poems, ranked 3,963,932 on Amazon, which chronicles the life of a porn star through poetry.
In an interview
on PopMatters.com, Porco describes it as “my book-length ode to the
adult-film star affectionately referred to as ‘the anal queen.”
Another of Porco's sexually explicit pieces included in The Jill Kelly Poems is “Ars Poetica.”
“Breakfast in bed & down on all fours;
You’re eggs-over-easy, muchin’ for more.
Vegans protest & brand it obscene;
But there’s no starving my anal queen.”
In another collection, Augustine in Carthage, Porco included what he describes as the “21 of the filthiest limericks I could think to write.”
Jay Shalin, of the watchdog group the John William Pope Center for
Higher Education Policy pointed out the controversial hiring in an
opinion piece earlier this week and argued that parents should be wary
of placing their young adults in the classroom with Porco.
Indizzle. Likewise,
J. Joyce rakes hell, and the sewers, for dirt to throw at the fair face of life, and for poison to make beauty shrivel and die.... and Dr. Yeats undertakes that no citizen of Dublin shall fail to know his name. In season or out of season he has proclaimed him a genius... But there have been geniuses who have wallowed in the mire before, though any quite equally foul-minded, who shall say?
1. I have never heard of Porco until these idiots trying to get him fired brought him up. Now I'll buy one of his books. If it's good, I have read good poems. If it sucks, I have pissed off a dink. I win.
2. I don't know if Porco is as good as Joyce or Yeats; probably not, but who knows? Saying "you can't go there" and actually making it stick has not as of yet worked as far as discovering genius goes. Quite the opposite.
3. The "taxpayer" argument is ridiculous. I pay my taxes and consider dropping bombs on foreigners for obscure and probably counterproductive purposes "obscene." You have your priorities, I have mine. Yay America!
4. Also, Yeats got Joyce a modest payment from the Civil List; in the long run, totting it all up, that worked out to a tidy long-term public profit that is still paying dividends and is likely to do so for centuries to come.
5. It is inane and offensive for anyone to say that Porco is unfit to teach because of what he writes. He freely and openly produces poetry. Lots of folks, in the public and private sectors, consume pornography. And what he does isn't even pornographic -- you'd have to go to court there to prove strictly prurient intent, and good luck with that. (St. Augustine? Even in this decadent age... people masturbate to poetry among all available options? Really? Really?)
6. My "impressionable offspring" will, when they are of the age to encounter Mr. Porco, be old enough to handle college. If they aren't, I won't send them there, and I will likely also deny them the use of forks without corks affixed to the tines.
7. That said, I personally deplore foulmouthed limericks.
