A few months ago Zachary Schomburg posted a poetry tournament. I can't find the post; perhaps BJ can help. The concept was simple: set up a bracket (probably 16) of contemporary poets from your personal library, read the first (i.e., opening) poem from their book and which ever poem is best moves on until a champion is crowned. I hope this is an adequate description.
I have chosen poets from the east coast for my first poetry tournament. So, if this were a "March madness" type poetry tournament this would be the Eastern Region bracket.
This will be my distraction for the next 1 1/2 weeks so that I'm not distracted by the looming trip to AWP in Chicago when, as Marc and I talked about today, us adults get to go on vacation and indulge by staying up late and drinking lots of beer.
Here are the poets from the Eastern Regional bracket and the corresponding book that the first poem will come from:
Ethan Paquin, The Violence
Joshua Beckman, Things Are Happening
Anthony McCann, Father of Noise
Ellen Dudley, The Geographic Cure
Rod Smith, Deed
Susan Grimm, Lake Erie Blue
Jeffrey Levine, Mortal, Everlasting
Nancy Krygowski, Velocity
Alessandra Lynch, it was a terrible cloud at twilight.
A. Loudermilk, Strange Valentine
Sarah Hannah, Inflorescence
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, miracle fruit
Jim Daniels, Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars
Joan Houlihan, The Mending Worm
Mark Bibbins, sky lounge
Jean-Paul Pecqueur, The Case Against Happiness
I will post the first round tomorrow (hopefully...time permitting). This ought to fun, entertaining, and something nerdy to pass the time.
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