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What are the crows really up to?

Dave Bonta — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:15:47 +0000

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Surveying the crowd

Dave Bonta — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:12:09 +0000

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[Aftrthought] If you select Other, please put your suggestions in the comments — PollDaddy doesn’t display them, unfortunately.

Next time, the resolution will not be televised

Dave Bonta — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:50:03 +0000

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You can vote for as many resolutions as you like, but you can only vote once from any given computer.

Inaugural poet try-outs

Dave Bonta — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:19:27 +0000

UPDATE: I’ll continue to count votes up through midnight tonight, Nov. 12, EST. If you have alternate quotes to suggest, you’re free to use the comments, but they won’t be included in the vote tally unless you use the “Other” option in the poll, because I’m way too lazy to figure percentages myself. And of course if you’ve already voted and are curious to see how your choices are faring, click on “View Results” at the bottom of the poll. You may have to refresh the page first.

The blogosphere is abuzz with ideas about which poet Obama should invite to read at the inauguration. He is, however, a rare example of a politician who actually reads poetry for pleasure, so I imagine he doesn’t really need any help from us. But I thought it might be fun to hold some try-outs in any case. The following poll (which subscribers can only see by clicking through to the post, or by going to the page on PollDaddy) consists of randomly ordered pieces of advice from 20 different, living American poets. (At least, I think they’re all living. If not, we may have to summon Nancy Reagan.) You can vote for more than one quote, but please select only your favorites. Tomorrow or the next day I’ll count up the votes and reveal the authors.

Echolalia

Dave Bonta — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:04:52 +0000

Poll link for those reading via the feed.

All news items gleaned from the web. Thanks to Ernesto Priego for the idea to use PollDaddy and ReadWritePoem for the prompt.