Caught in a scandal for exposing fraudulent poetry contests, Alan Cordle, Founder of "Foetry.com", calls it quits after his anonymous identity was revealed. Shutdown earlier this week, the Portland based website was committed to revealing poetry contests that offered phony publishing contracts as dividends.Alan Cordle, a research librarian who created and managed the site for over a year, called his enterprise the "American poetry watchdog". Most of the sites Cordle exposed at Foetry.com are prominent national operations, which according to Cordle were misleading contestants, and were marred by the deviant work of less than scrupulous judges that selected friends and students as winners. In a recent interview, Alan Cordle said that his hasty decision for closing the site was due mostly to the unveiling of his identity, although, he claims he'd already been planning to do so "for about a month". Cordle's identity was revealed earlier this month in a blog by an anonymous anti-foetry web site calling itself "whoisfoetry.com." The conspirators had recently solicited tips about Cordle from their discussion forum, and managed to unearth his identity by verifying the Foetry site's registrant with the company that manages Internet domain names.Some of the contest sites named by Cordle on Foetry.com include those in association with Harvard, and Boise State University. Both directors of the contests deny any allegations of fraudulency, claiming Cordle's accusations were untrue and painful. Jorie Graham, a contest judge and professor at Harvard, added that Foetry took an unfair aim "at the people who have worked to try to help young poets in this country." Boise State professor and poetry contest director, Janet Holmes, had this to say about Alan Cordle, "He should be ashamed of himself for what he's done."Mr. Cordle added in his interview that he would like to reinstate the site at some point in the future.