THE FOURTH DAILY POEM PROJECT, FINAL ROUND
Here are the poems to vote for in the final round of my fourth Daily Poem Project. They are the winners of the twelve rounds from Monday, February 18, to Sunday, May 11 (each week's poems being those that appeared on Poetry Daily that week; week 9 ended in a tie, hence the two poems from that week):
1. Alison Brackenbury's Edward Thomas's Daughter
2. Martha Zweig's Overturn
3. B. T. Shaw's We End, Like Galileo
4. Damian Walford Davies's Plague
5. Mary Jo Salter's Point of View
6. Bill Zavatsky's Ode to the Maker of Odes
7. Marie Howe's The Star Market
8. Adam Zagajewski's In a Little Apartment, translated by Clare Cavanagh
9a. Sidney Wade's Siamo a la Frutta
9b. John Rybicki's Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me
10. Elaine Sexton's Night. Fire
11. Lisa Williams's Horizontally, I Moved
12. Martha Rhodes's Come to Me, His Blood
HOW TO VOTE: Please vote for only ONE poem. 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). (If you read this on Facebook, please vote on my blog and not as a comment on Facebook.) I will post comments as they come in (unless you tell me not to post the comment, of course).
I will not set a particular deadline for you to vote by, as I will be trying to recruit lots of people to vote in this final round. (If you vote, feel free to pass on the call for votes to as many people as you like!) As long as this post does not say that voting is closed, you may still vote! (As of now, Friday, May 23, the voting is still open and I'd love to hear from anyone who is interested!)
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John Rybicki: Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me.
ReplyDelete7. Marie Howe's The Star Market
ReplyDeleteRybicki please.
ReplyDeleteBetween Salter and Rybicki. Salter in the end. Yes, Salter.
ReplyDeleteMartha Zweig, Overturn
ReplyDeleteJohn Rybicki's Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me
ReplyDeleteSidney Wade's Siamo a la Frutta
ReplyDeleteElaine Sexton's Night.Fire
ReplyDeleteSidney Wade's Siamo a la Frutta
ReplyDeleteJohn Rybicki's Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me.
ReplyDeleteMary Jo Salter's Point of View
ReplyDeleteLisa Williams, by far and away -- perfect update to an age-old theme.
ReplyDeleteLisa Williams's Horizontally, I Moved barely edged out Mary Jo Salter's Point of View for me.
ReplyDeleteMy #1 choice in DPP4's final round is:
ReplyDelete'Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me'
by John Rybicki
-- dhsh
PS: Can't seem to resist reporting
my second & third choices, too:
'The Star Market' by Marie Howe
-- first runner-up
'Plague' by Damian Walford Davies
-- second runner-up
Ode To The Maker Of Odes
ReplyDeleteI vote for Come to Me, His Blood by Martha Rhodes.
ReplyDeletei'm sorry. i chose. then i un-chose. when does this close?
ReplyDeletepant
pant
Voting will not close before Saturday, May 31.
ReplyDeleteNight. Fire.
ReplyDeleteum, it'll be zagajewski first for me, then rybicki i think, followed, closely, by zavatsky
ReplyDeleteArgh, Andrew. This was tough. I'm going with Elaine Sexton, 'Night. Fire' Syntax + repetition = seashore = neato.
ReplyDeleteThis is hard. I would vote for almost any of these on different days. Today my choice is Damian Walford Davies' "Plague." It's a poem I want to read aloud over and over and over.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it comes down to Salter or Zagajewski, and though Salter provides exquisite "mathematical / pleasure," I am going to vote for Zagajewski, whose poem has such quiet ambition, so subtly fulfilled.
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