Sturgeon's Law

You know what I'd like to see in poetry? Franklin W. Dixon. Dixon was the "author" of the Hardy Boys mystery series, actually a pseudonym for the Stratemeyer syndicate, a bunch of authors who all wrote novels in several different children's book series with the same basic characters and style and using a collective pen name. I'd like to see a group of poets with a similar aesthetic form a single collaborative "poet" and all send out work under that pseudonym. You could even set up readings for this "poet" using a particularly charismatic reader.

Of course I must take this opportunity to note that fill-in-the-blank (Suarez, Lifshin, Van Cleave, Perchik, Waldrep, Clay Matthews) already appears to be such a publishing collective (you're everywhere, Clay!), but I think it would be an interesting project to actually do. There's not a whole lot of profit in poetry, but I don't know if that would be a plus or a minus in terms of getting people involved. People might crave the individual attention more, or they might be more inclined to join the project for the sense of fun.