| They were termed agons, which word, despite the evident connection to our agony or agonize, originally had nothing to do with the duress or anguish these words now convey. |
| Poets are a contentious group, perhaps because of the small stakes, and poetry competitions go back at least to the Greeks, who called them agons. |
| The founder of QuickMuse, Ken Gordon of Newton, Mass., calls his showdowns agons too. |
