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2008 Round One Match-Ups

Here are the Round One Match-Ups:

 (click on the links to view the poems in each match-up)

 

East Region

#1 Adrienne Rich - Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers v. #16 Dean Young - from This Living Hand

#2 Robert Welburn - A Sentimental Reason v. #15 Alice Notely - The world is intact

#3 James J. Roberts - Normalcy v. #14 George Oppen - Who Shall Doubt

#4 Seth Abramson - Europa v. #13 Cynthia Zarin - Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day

#5 Gary Whitehead - Vultures at Point Reyes v. #12 Philip Booth - Nightsong

#6 Julia Spicher Kasdorf - A Family History v. #11 Jane Hirshfield - A Hand

#7 Gregory Orr - Father’s Song v. #10 Chase Twichell - Stirred Up By Rain

#8 Daniel Hoffman - The Poem v. #9 Saskia Hamilton - The Song in the Dream

 

South Region

#1 John Most - spit fire v. #16 Kathryn Stripling Byer - Coastal Plain

#2 Ruth Stone - Always on the Train v. #15 Elizabeth Bishop - One Art

#3 Alfred Corn - Promised Land Valley, June ‘73 v. #14 Donald Justice - Bus Stop

#4 Doris Davenport -No, I know you remember so and so v. #13 Natasha Trethewey - Providence

#5 Etheridge Knight - Cell Song v. #12 Randall Jarrell - Mail Call

#6 Martha Collins - lynch v. #11 Ishmael Reed - Jacket Notes

#7 Nicole Cooley - Triage Sonnet v. #10 Margaret Walker - I Want to Write

#8 Andrew Hudgins - In v. #9 A. R. Ammons - Elegy for a Jet Pilot

 

Midwest Region

#1 William Allegrezza - words v. #16 Eve Merriam - Weather

#2 Matthew Roher - Ski Lift to Death! v. #15 Ted Kooser - A Happy Birthday

#3 Ralph Burns - Fishing in Winter v. #14 James Wright - Northern Pike

#4 Jackson Mac Low - Call Me, Ishmael v. #13 Mona Van Duyn - Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri

#5 Linda Gregerson - Narrow Flame v. #12 Howard Nemerov - A Primer of the Daily Round

#6 Ray A. Young Bear - In the Tree’s Shadow v. #11 Carl Phillips - Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm

#7 Carolyn Forche - The Morning Baking v. #10 Harley Elliot - Outside Abilene

#8 Amy Clampitt - Easter Morning v. #9 Mark Jarman - Descriptions of Heaven and Hell

 

West Region

#1 Craig Arnold - Why I Skip My High School Reunions v. #16 Paisley Redkal - Bats

#2 Tamara Thorne - The Haunted Grave v. #15 Marvin Bell - Mars Being Red

#3 William Michealian - The Teacher v. #14 Tess Gallagher - Little Match Box

#4 F. A. Nettlebeck - REDLINING THE FOSSIL v. #13 Heather McHugh - Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun

 #5 Wanda Coleman - Bedtime Stories v. #12 David Revell - Election Year

#6 Gary Soto - Looking Around, Believing v. #11 William Everson - The Poet is Dead

#7 Judith Skillman - The Business of Murder v.  #10 Ralph Angel - This

#8 Ellen Bass - Eating the Bones v. #9 May Swenson - Question