"Much [March] madness is divinest sense" - Emily D. Poetry Smackdown Tourney

[camille napier bernstein]

My students and I would love to have you participate in the Emily D. Poetry Smackdown Tournament. 

Sixteen of "the Eccentric Recluse's" poems are paired in the first round.  Second round begins Saturday.  Participating will take less time than watching 63 NCAA basketball games, and you'll (re)discover some great poetry.

Details here: http://tiny.cc/emily-march-madness

Hope you'll join us!

[camille napier bernstein]

Thanks for all who participated in Round 1!  If you didn't get a chance, you can join now.

There are eight poems battling it out in the Second Round (quarter-finals) of the "Much [March] Madness is divinest sense" competition. 

Thursday is the semi-finals and Friday is the CHAMPIONSHIP round! 

Read them here with hyperlinks: http://tiny.cc/emily-march-madness
Record your pics here: http://tiny.cc/emilydsmackdown

THANK YOU!
Camille

[camille napier bernstein]

Thanks to all who participated.  Winning poem:  "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

-- Emily Dickinson