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Survivor Poet!
Round 3
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• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Emily Dickinson
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Ezra Pound
 
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Survivor Poet Discussion:
“why you voted a poet off our Island, your comments on the game, the poets we chose for the tribe, the poems we choose for you to read each week, the voting results...”
 

Once again, you have spoken, Dear Readers: this week you voted Charles “Bad Boy” Baudelaire & Li “Wiseguy” Po off the About Poetry Island. Here's the official vote tally from the second elimination round of Survivor Poet:

87 votes (28%)      Li Po
77 votes (25%)      Baudelaire
51 votes (16%)      Poe
42 votes (13%)      Chaucer
40 votes (13%)      Pound
8 votes (2%)          Dickinson

305 votes total
It was women who got voted off in Round 1, poets who wrote in languages other than English in Round 2... does that mean our readers are fans of the traditional canon of white male poets? Still, Emily Dickinson came through to this 3rd round by quite a large margin. Now it's up to you to choose from these four survivor poets:

To help you choose & to bring some actual poetry into this game, we've posted a new poem from each of the four on the following pages. Use the voting form below to vote two of the four off our island. We will accept votes in this round until 6 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, May 2, at which time the votes will be tallied & our survivor game will be down to a face-off between our final duo of bards.

Bob Holman & Margy Snyder


3rd ROUND SURVIVOR POET VOTING HAS CLOSED
5.2.2001, 6 pm Pacific time

Survivor Poet! Final Round


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