Welcome to Selection Sunday!
In this 10-minute video, I unveil the full March Madness Poetry 2013 bracket, region by region, seed by seed. The audio’s a little quiet, so you may need to turn your sound up:
Send your congratulations to this year’s authletes! Over the next two weeks, we’ll all learn a bit more about them.
Then, on March 11th, the fun really begins …
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Giddy with excitement, how will I rest?
So thrilled to be chosen for this poetry-fest!
Thanks, Ed…I can’t wait for the Madness to begin!
Congrats, Melinda. Are you and your students still going to choose a first round word? You’re still allowed, of course; I’ll make sure it doesn’t go to you (or your competitor).
So excited – can’t wait!! Thanks so much, Ed!!
It is indeed my intention to promote the tournament and earn a chance at choosing a word. We have been on break for a week. We will finalize our promotion plans early this week!
Wow. Thank you!
I feel so honored to participate in this year’s poetry tournament!
I feel so happy I’d adorn a Christmas tree with every ornament!
Thank you Ed.
The Oscars’s nice.
But S’lection Sunday’s thrice
as nice.
Your prep is amazing Ed. What fun to see my name, & then all the others. I will be speaking poetically for days! Thank you!
Congrats, Linda.
Thank you so much! I didn’t even know how much I wanted it until I was chosen. I am so excited thank you again! Angie
Evil man!!!! You have unleashed a cacophony of witches’ cackles. Ha! I am up for the 16-seed challenge!
Phew! Before I read the Comments section I was afraid the ambulance siren at the end was the sound of Renee LaTulippe getting help recovering from the announcement of her 16 seed. Glad to see you are okay!!
I could have edited it out, but I thought that the ambulance siren at the end was a nice touch.
Forget the glam. Forget the fashion
I’ve got luck, pluck, and passion.
Give me my word. I’ll knock out a verse.
Mine will be better and yours will be okay.
Here’s to another great competition! – Q
Woot! Looking forward to the fun (and the stress)!!
Thank you for the opportunity to show my humor. Wait…are you laughing woth me or at me? Ha! Looking forward to the challenge.
Holy crow! Made it in..what a delight. Give me my word and you’ll see a fight.
They call me an authlete
I been versing for years
Rockin my iambs, jabbing rhythms like spears
Making poetry roll like a red carpet
Golden as an Oscar won by a starlet
Thanks, Ed. Can’t imagine how I landed in the humor bracket.
Easy answer! “By random chance.”
Looks like great fun. The first round is chock full of great match ups too.
Poetry Madness is coming to town -
Gonna rock a good adjective, spit a great noun,
When all the dust settles, I’ll be wearin’ the crown
‘Cause Robyn Hood Black will be goin’ down!
Thanks, Ed…looking forward to it!
Thanks so much, Ed! I’m thrilled to make it in this time. This will be so much fun!
I can’t even say how honored I feel to be competing this year and with such amazing people! I’m ready to start this poetry party!!
Thanks, Ed! This is going to be fun. Either that, or it’s going to kill me. I can’t wait to find out which…
Oh my goodness! I’m so honored to get to compete again this year.
Thanks! What a hoot!
Yah! Super-thanks!
CANNOT WAIT!
Kudos to my fellow 64, and to Ed, and to *everyone* who applied.
~Marcus
(feel free to friend me on Facebook, folks- I love community!)
Thank you so much for this opportunity!
The seeding is a little intimidating, but I look forward to the challenge and actually prefer the more difficult word. Better ideas are created through more unique prompts.
I have a lot of steps to cross, but I plan on winning… so whoever is against me better be prepared for my best! I will make Supercalafragilisticexpialadocious work in a poem if I have to.
Josh J. Close
A good group. Will promote from the sidelines.
Thank you Ed for including everyone in the fun!
Jeanne Poland
This sounds like a fun way to challenge and push myself to do more with poetry, so I’m looking forward to the “games”. “May the odds be ever in MY favor.”
I love all of the trash talk ALREADY … and Allan Wolf hasn’t even arrived yet!
He’s too intimidated of possibly seeing me in the second round, so he’s too busy to respond right now. I think he’s currently going through the dictionary writing a poem for every word that he could possibly receive. I told him it was a waste of time because you were giving him a made up word, but he didn’t believe me.
Let the pigeons be loosed!
Let the battles begin!
I’m hopped up and juiced,
and I’m in it to…have a really good time.
+1
Looking forward to it and meeting other children’s poets and fans.
Love the term “authlete,” and I’m tickled to be here!
What star-studded brackets
with brainies and sweeties –
I’m flexing my fingers.
Matt, eat your Wheaties.
;0)
Thank you, Ed – can’t wait!
Okay, I might have to replace my Twitter pic with a more appropriate game face, my friend.
(See below.) ;0)
Oops – I thought that was going under “Say Something to This Person” in Matt’s box above. It migrated.
I am very excited (and a little nauseous). I’m going to go practice some free throws now.
Good luck, Robyn! I’m looking forward to seeing your ‘game face!’
I think Anna Boll got it right – this is like being a chef on the reality show CHOPPED. Poetry cooked up under pressure? Yikes! And we do it willingly, for fun? What are we, nuts? (Absolutely. Thanks, Ed.)
I can take it, Dom! I AM here to discombobulate, after all!
Can’t wait….this is going to be sooooooooooooooooooo fun!
Raises hand,
does a bow.
Do I want in?
Yes–right now!
Jane
Just so you know, the line to apply for #MMPoetry 2014 begins right behind Jane Yolen …
Aaargh! I can’t beleive I missed all the announcements and deadlines for participating in this years tournament….
Congrats to all the participants. Look forward to the competition. For the record, I’m rooting for Renee…
Can’t wait for this to begin! I’m a first timer, and hope to compete well.
A few names I recognize and they almost petrify me.
Congrats to all and may the best verse win.
Hey, I have a fan! Gee, thanks, Vikram!