[Tim Murphy]

Mike used an Anonymizer. Which I think is silly. I have never thought these things need be blind. I have usually served as screener for the judges. The people I have asked to screen over the years are people whose judgment I trust. Marion Shore screening for Charles Martin. John Whitworth for Joe Kennedy. Rose for Dick Wilbur. Myself for many judges. We went to screeners to minimize work for the judges. We went to blind judging to respond to demands from our members. I'll handle it anyway you want. I for one trust Cathy to choose twelve sonnets, but I can do it myself.

I don't believe it has ever been a requirement that anything in a bake-off have been workshopped here. Never. We'd not have had entries from the likes of Williamson and Stallings otherwise. The requirement is "not published in a trade book or an anthology." I am paying attention to all this discussion of our work being rejected at Poetry, etc. I have written Sasaki and Wiman on our behalf. But certainly at The Lariat it's an issue, for ours is an anthology whose archives are not expunged. And I guess I'd urge members to submit published work and acknowledge its provenance.