[Susan McLean]

I am copying below the announcement from the Rondeau Roundup web site about the winners of Allison Joseph's contest for writing a rondeau redoublé. I was a finalist, and I think many of the other names are either members of Eratosphere or well known to most of you.

Susan


Dear Entrants:

I received so many fine examples of this complex form that I had to invent new categories for the winning poets:

Winner: $100 and publication on the Rondeau Roundup Blog
Toni Clark, for “Rondeau Redouble: Final Stage”

Finalists: $25 and publication on the Rondeau Roundup Blog
Susan McLean, for “Learning to Cope”
Tom Hunley, for “God’s Lonely Man”
Uche Ogbuji, for “Hellgate”

Publication Awards: Publication on the Rondeau Roundup Blog:
Tiel Aisha Ansari, for “How Our New Immigration Policies are Like the Bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef”
Joan Wiese Johannes, for “A Blooming Scandal”

I so enjoyed reading these poems—the level of craft was so very high! Thanks to all the folks who submitted poems for consideration.

The poems will be on the blog throughout the month of May.

Thanks so much,
Allison Joseph, Editor
The Rondeau Roundup

[Chris O'Carroll]

Congratulations, Susan. That's wonderful news.

The announcement says, "The poems will be on the blog throughout the month of May." Does that mean they've have been posted already and will stay up through May? Or does it mean they'll be posted May 1 and remain up through May 31?

[Susan McLean]

Chris, I am guessing that it means that they will be posted one at a time through the month of May. Things posted on the blog stay there. Here is the link to the blog:

http://therondeauroundup.blogspot.com/

Susan

[Terese Coe]

Kudos, Susan and Uche! Look forward to seeing your work at the site!

[Catherine Chandler]

Congratulations, Toni, Susan and Uche! No mean feat!

[R. S. Gwynn]

Susan, is your entry a nod to Wendy's rr?

[Susan McLean]

Sam, actually the contest was called the Learning to Cope Poetry Prize, so the contest name was a nod to Cope's roundeau redoublé. I know that poem well and have always wanted to write one like it, but did not have a subject. Fortunately, it occurred to me that learning to cope is a recursive action that would fit the form well. So the contest's title gave me a subject.

Susan

[R. S. Gwynn]

"There are so many kinds of awful men." A great opening line, and the poem gets better.

[John Isbell]

I am rereading Wendy Cope. What a pleasure!

[Toni Clark]

Thanks, everyone! I am thrilled to have won first place. It's my first rondeau redoublé. Congrats to Susan and Uche, too!