LA Talent Agent Wins Prize for Comical Poetry

The winners have been announced for the tenth annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, sponsored by Massachusetts web resource WinningWriters.com. And lo and behold, the third place $400 prize claimant is none other than Alicia Ruskin (pictured), a commercial agent and partner with LA powerhouse agency Kazarian, Spencer, Ruskin & Associates.

Ruskin’s composition, “Speaking of Speaking,” makes fun of “flarf,” a post-modern movement that uses Internet search text for the purposes of cultural commentary. Here’s just a snippet of Ruskin’s bronzed composition:

Before we begin, please turn off any cell phones, pagers, watches, free standing inserts, November, dogma, the capitals of Europe and fleece.

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