I found this article in the New York Times about a man named Christian Ward who has been repeatedly stealing people’s poems and entering them in contests under his own name to make money. The poems he enters in these contests are “identical in line and stanza to the original, except for a few strategic word changes.” I think it’s incredibly shocking how he thought he would be able to repeatedly do this without being caught. Maybe it would have been understandable for him to believe that he could have entered one plagiarized poem into a poetry contest and possibly get away with it. But numerous plagiarized poems? That’s a bit too daring. The fact that he repeatedly did this shows that either he did not take plagiarizing seriously or that  he was not fully aware of the consequences of plagiarizing