DPP5 results

I've been very busy taking care of my children, since Andrea is in Lille for a conference for the weekend. Here, at last, are the results of the voting for week 5 of the Daily Poem Project:

The class voted on Friday morning, and almost all the votes went to two poems, seven votes to Laure-Anne Bosselaar's "Friends," and five going to Karin Gottshall's "The Current."

That result meant that the bloggers and the students voted for the same poem for the first time. I received 15 votes on the blog, and they were more widely distributed than in the class. For the first time, too, all the poems received at least one vote, but Bosselaar won with four, while Gottshall's poem and Philip White's "Raptor" received three each.

My short list was Bosselaar, Gottshall, and Meghan O'Rourke's "Descent"; in fact, I first intended to vote for O'Rourke's poem, but then Gottshall's poem got angry, as it were, and I went with my personal appreciation of any poem that evokes Lake Superior so effectively.

I'll be posting a call for votes for week six tomorrow (if childcare allows); in the meantime, of course, you can already read the poems on Poetry Daily (the poems from April 30 to May 6).

Results of previous weeks:
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four

DPP5

THE DAILY POEM PROJECT, WEEK FIVE

Here are the poems to vote for in week five of my Daily Poem Project (the poems on Poetry Daily from Monday, April 23, to Sunday, April 29):

29. Don Share, "Ruby"
30. Meghan O'Rourke, "Descent"
31. Julianna Baggott, "Q and A: Do you write about real stuff or do you make it all up?"
32. Laure-Anne Bosselaar, "Friends,"
33. Philip White, "Raptor"
34. Paige Ackerson-Kiely, "On the Gentle Nature of Swales"
35. Karin Gottshall, "The Current"

The Rules:

You can send your vote to me by email or as a comment on the blog. If you want to vote by commenting but do not want your vote to appear on the blog, you just have to say so in your comment (I moderate all comments). In any case, I will not post the comments until after the final vote is in (secret ballot). Please vote by the number of the poem in the list above! Please make a final decision and vote for only one poem! Please VOTE BY THURSDAY, MAY 3!

Results of previous weeks:
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four