Round 11

Yusef: "Litany" by Billy Collins

Bob: "On the Screened Porch" by Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Collins is facile and glib here (big surprise), and loses to conventionally good poem by unknown poet, from Poetry Magazine. A kind of childhood memory poem I would usually sneer at, but here the details are vivid and finely wrought. There is more "content" here than in the Collins. (Yusef's favorite word.) Bob is turning out to be a superb editor. Even his two losses have come with good poems.

Score after 11:

2-7-2