Classic Corner Poll - March 2020

25.00% • 4 votes • Carol Ann Duffy
25.00% • 4 votes • Yehuda Amichai
18.75% • 3 votes • Edna St Vincent Millay
6.25% • 1 vote • Sarah Teasdale
6.25% • 1 vote • Joyce Carol Oats
6.25% • 1 vote • Ted Hughes
6.25% • 1 vote • Matsuo Basho
6.25% • 1 vote • Robert Bly
Total votes: 16
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Classic Corner Poll - March 2020

Posted: 2nd February 2020 9:37pm
Ahavati
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Welcome to March's Classic Corner poll!  These names were taken from the previous list for male and female poets.  If there is a poet you wish to see featured, PLEASE ADD THEIR NAME TO THIS POST, and we'll feature them in next month's poll.

The top female and male will be featured next month.

Here is a list of poets we have already held challenges about and earned themes for, so keep in mind there is no point in recommending them:

Arthur Rimbaud
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10368/

Jelaluddin Rumi
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10417/

Rainer Maria Rilke
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10367/

Elizabeth Bishop
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10456/

Robert Frost
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10474/

Emily Dickinson
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10494/

Dr Seuss
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10520/

Mary Oliver
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10548/

Pablo Neruda
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10615/

Maya Angelou
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10611/

Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10653/#441938

Denise Levertov
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10652/

Kim Addonizio
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10714/#442455

Khalil Gibran
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10710/#442336

Sharon Olds
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/SharonOlds/

FedericoGarcía Lorca
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/FedericaGarciaLorca/

Agnes Török
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/AgnesTorok/

Wendell Berry
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/WendellBerry/

Anne Sexton
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10911/

E.E. Cummings
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10912/

T.S. Eliot
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10958/#453354

Rupi Kaur
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10957/#453353

Louise Glück
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/LouiseGluck/

Langston Hughes
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/LangstonHughes/

Stevie Smith ( Competition in progress )
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/11244/

Billy Collins ( Competition in progress )
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/11245/

List of themes that already exist, thus no need to recommend these particular poets.

#CharlesBukowski
#EdgarAllanPoe
#ErnestHemmingway
#HenryDavidThoreau
#OscarWilde
#SylviaPlath
#WilliamShakespeare  

Voting for this competition will end February 15, to allow our artist plenty of time to render portraits for February!

Thank you each for your participation in the Classic Corner Competitions!

Posted: 2nd February 2020 10:23pm
Edited: 2nd February 2020 10:24pm
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Posted: 2nd February 2020 10:26pm
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Posted: 2nd February 2020 10:31pm
poet Anonymous
I must consult the Oracle as to who I should vote for.

Eenie meanie chilli beanie .....

Posted: 2nd February 2020 10:38pm
Edited: 2nd February 2020 10:38pm
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. . .

Posted: 2nd February 2020 10:39pm
Edited: 6th February 2020 12:30pm - edited 2 times
Jade-Pandora
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I haven’t voted yet, I need to think it over a bit longer.  Meantime, a poet I’d like to see added to the poll in March;

Charles Simic ✔️
( b. 1941 )

Posted: 2nd February 2020 10:55pm
Edited: 2nd February 2020 10:55pm
poet Anonymous



Ahavati said:. . .

Silly! I meant YOU!

Posted: 2nd February 2020 10:57pm
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JohnnyBlaze said:



Silly! I meant YOU!


Posted: 2nd February 2020 11:09pm
poet Anonymous
Ahavati said:



You know I'm clueless without your guidance in the Classics.

Posted: 2nd February 2020 11:17pm
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JohnnyBlaze said:

You know I'm clueless without your guidance in the Classics.

I'm a bit unsure on this one! I'm torn between two.  

Posted: 2nd February 2020 11:22pm
poet Anonymous
Ahavati said:

I'm a bit unsure on this one! I'm torn between two.  

Well, there's always April for the other!

Posted: 2nd February 2020 11:28pm
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JohnnyBlaze said:

Well, there's always April for the other!


Posted: 5th February 2020 3:21pm
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Periodic bump!  

Posted: 6th February 2020 12:28pm
Jade-Pandora
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James Wright✔️
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Posted: 9th February 2020 5:15am
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