Round 37

Yusef: "Love Blooms at Chimsbury after the War" by Jennifer L. Knox

Bob: "On Antiphon Island" by Nathaniel Mackey

Knox's 14-liner poem is delightful: a series of fictional characters "dropping dead" one after the other. Mackey has his moments here too. I like the word "andoumboulouos." This round was hard to call until I realized that I had to try too hard to like Mackey's poem. If it didn't have his name attached to it, I wouldn't have tried at all. So Yusef wins this round.

After 37

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