On his blog, Gladecstaticgrin, Canadian poet Pino Coluccio has posted an entry about pitching a poetry game show to Bravo. “Think ‘Name That Tune’ only the host — Canadian publishing icon Jack David — reads a line from a canonical English poem and the contestants — all top shelf Canadian poets — name the poet for 100 points, the poem for 200, or both for 500.”

There’s more: “The teams divide along publisher lines — one week four Anansi poets square off against foes from Coach House. Another week it’s Signal vs. Nightwood.” And the prize? “The winning team gets to reach for the mop actually used by the studio’s janitorial staff and slish it unwrung a few times over each of the losing contestants’ sad mugs. The winners stay on to face poets from another house the following week.”

Coluccio is clearly joking, but he might be on to something. Surely just about everyone out there can think of a few dunkings they might pay premium-cable prices to witness?

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Click here for Pino Coluccio’s blog entry