[Sharon Fish Mooney]

MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS AMONG THE 2014 BAKE-OFF FINALISTS:

#1 (3 points): Ariosto’s Fly
#2 (2 points): Rimbaud’s Lice
#3 (1 point): Boye’s Butterflies

MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS OF MELEAGER'S BEE POEM:

#1 (3 points): # 7 Mary McLean
#2 (2 points): #19 Ann Drysdale
#3 (1 point): #14 Roger Slater

MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS OF MELEAGER'S FIRST MOSQUITO POEM:

#1 (3 points): #3 Ann Drysdale
#2 (2 points): #8 Brian Allgar
#3 (1 point): no third choice

[Janice D. Soderling]

MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS AMONG THE 2014 BAKE-OFF FINALISTS:
#1 (3 points): 1A--Ariosto's fly
#2 (2 points): 1G--Leal's butterflies
#3 (1 point): 1E--Anonymous bookworm


MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS OF MELEAGER'S BEE POEM:

#1 (3 points): Post #8 by Susan McLean
#2 (2 points): Post #19 by Ann Drysdale
#3 (1 point): Post #23 by Ann Drysdale

MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS OF MELEAGER'S FIRST MOSQUITO POEM:

#1 (3 points): Post #8 by Brian Allgar
#2 (2 points): Post #10 by Susan McLean
#3 (1 point): Post #6 by Mary McLean

It wasn't easy.

[Skip Dewahl]

Bake-Off

Anonymous bookworm
Ariosto's fly
Kosztolányi's 3 insects (Too good not to enter into battle, despite the obscure final poem)

Honorable mention: Rimbaud's lice

[Ann Drysdale]

MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS AMONG THE 2014 BAKE-OFF FINALISTS:

#1 (3 points):Neruda's Insect
#2 (2 points):Anonymous Bookworm
#3 (1 point): Ariosto's Fly

MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS OF MELEAGER'S BEE POEM:

#1 (3 points):John Whitworth
#2 (2 points):Susan McLean (20)
#3 (1 point): Maryann Corbett

MY FAVORITE TRANSLATIONS OF MELEAGER'S FIRST MOSQUITO POEM:

#1 (3 points):Susan McLean
#2 (2 points):Mary McLean
#3 (1 point): Brian Allgar

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[Birthe Myers]

# 1: Anonymous Bookworm.

Such a wonderfully clever translation of a wonderfully clever little poem.

[Julie Steiner]

The polls are now closed! Thanks.

[Gregory Dowling]

Damn -
Well, I'll just throw "Ariosto's Fly" over the fence and hope it lands somewhere useful...