THE FIFTH DAILY POEM PROJECT, WEEK SEVEN RESULTS

The winner of the seventh week of my fifth Daily Poem Project is Jack  Gilbert, Not Easily, which received 8 votes out of 26 cast.

Three poems received 20 of those 26 votes: Ghassan  Zaqtan, A Picture of the House at Beit Jala (tr. Fady Joudah), and Edward  Nobles, Blue Fire, each received six votes. The other six votes were spread out among the other four poems.

My thanks to everyone who voted, and my special thanks to those of you who posted the call for votes on your blogs. I'll be posting the call for votes for week eight shortly.

The winner of week one was Sherod  Santos, Film Noir.
The winner of week two was Edward Field, Cataract op.
The winner of week three was David  Bottoms, A Chat with My Father.
The winner of week four was David  Schloss, The Myth.
The co-winners of week five were Jason  Gray, Letter to the Unconverted, and David  Huerta, Before Saying Any of the Great Words (tr. Mark Schafer).
The winner of week six was Stacey Lynn  Brown, Cradle Song II.