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“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...”
 

Our Dear Readers: this week you voted Geoffrey “Jolly Forth” Chaucer & Ezra “The Genius” Pound off the About Poetry Island. Here's the official vote tally from the third elimination round of Survivor Poet:

169 votes (34%)      Chaucer
130 votes (26%)      Pound
109 votes (22%)      Poe
  82 votes (16%)      Dickinson

490 votes total
It was women who got voted off in Round 1, poets who wrote in languages other than English in Round 2, the Medieval storyteller & the Modernist in Round 3... So now we're down to the final face-off, and you must choose between this pair of 19th century American poets:

For your reading pleasure in this final round of the Survivor game, we've posted new poems from Dickinson & Poe on their pages, following. And for your listening pleasure, we have readings of poems by Poe & Dickinson in our MP3 Pick of the Week this week.

In this final round, the voting process is turned around: Use the form below to vote for the poet you want to be the last Survivor. You're not voting anyone off the About Poetry Island this week. Instead, you are choosing the winning Survivor Poet.

We will accept votes in this round until 6 pm Pacific time on Tuesday, May 8, at which time the votes will be tallied & our survivor game will have reached its finale.

Bob Holman & Margy Snyder
FINAL ROUND SURVIVOR POET VOTING HAS CLOSED
5.8.2001, 6 pm Pacific time

Survivor Poet! Final Round Results


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