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!!!MORTAL KOMBAT POETRY SLAM!!!
Oct. 9th, 2005 01:26 pm!!!RESULTS OF ROUND TWO, BOUTS 9-16!!!
9.) Thomas Lux made Matthew Arnold take a long walk down Dover Beach.
10.) Hopefuly, Ted Kooser can find delights and shadows in his defeat to Wallace Stevens.
11.) Mother says Lawrence Ferlinghetti beats Hal Sirowitz.
12.) Dorothy Parker returns James Tate Tate tot he city of lost donkies.
13.) IT's a time for love, death and the changing of the seasons for Marilyn Hacker as she loses to Carolyn Forche.
14.) Sister Spit twist the Carma Bums's cadillac.
15.) Mark Strand shows Julia Alvarez how to lose her accent.
16.) And, in the hottest bout of this round, Rainer Maria Rilke barely sends Jeff McDaniel to the forgetting room.
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Closing in on the home stretch!
Round Three!
1.) Elizabeth Bishop vs. Thomas Lux
2.) Rumi vs. Wallace Stevens
3.) Ann Sexton vs. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4.) Robert Burns vs. Dorothy Parker
5.) Sharon Olds vs. Carolyn Forche
6.) Mark Doty vs. Sister Spit
7.) Sherman Alexie vs. Mark Strand
8.) Dylan Thomas vs. Rainer Maria Rilke
And let's hear that trash talk!
9.) Thomas Lux made Matthew Arnold take a long walk down Dover Beach.
10.) Hopefuly, Ted Kooser can find delights and shadows in his defeat to Wallace Stevens.
11.) Mother says Lawrence Ferlinghetti beats Hal Sirowitz.
12.) Dorothy Parker returns James Tate Tate tot he city of lost donkies.
13.) IT's a time for love, death and the changing of the seasons for Marilyn Hacker as she loses to Carolyn Forche.
14.) Sister Spit twist the Carma Bums's cadillac.
15.) Mark Strand shows Julia Alvarez how to lose her accent.
16.) And, in the hottest bout of this round, Rainer Maria Rilke barely sends Jeff McDaniel to the forgetting room.
****
Closing in on the home stretch!
Round Three!
1.) Elizabeth Bishop vs. Thomas Lux
2.) Rumi vs. Wallace Stevens
3.) Ann Sexton vs. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4.) Robert Burns vs. Dorothy Parker
5.) Sharon Olds vs. Carolyn Forche
6.) Mark Doty vs. Sister Spit
7.) Sherman Alexie vs. Mark Strand
8.) Dylan Thomas vs. Rainer Maria Rilke
And let's hear that trash talk!
