Dear Tony, You wrote:
> ... snip .. Suggestions for potential judges would be especially welcomed. I would like to propose Paul Murphy for a judge. He is of a culture renowned for its poets and wordsmiths. His profession has given him insight into the onus and honor of the judicial role. It has also steeped him in the subtler nuances of language and its uses. (Besides if we make him a judge, he'll have to recuse himself from competing, which will surely enhearten others, who might elsewise be dismayed and deterred by the knowledge that he is among their rivals! <g>) ================================================================== Unfortunately, I think I see a major difficulty for the proposed competition: The list is truly international, and although its members use English as its "lingua franca" <ouch>, it would be quite unfair to conduct a competition solely in that language. However, if it were opened to entries in every language, there would be too many categories to provide separate prizes in each language. Simply finding judges for each would be a formidable task. To find judges who could fairly intercompare and rate the relative quality of poems in all the possible languages in order to finally select a unique winner, seems to me even more difficult, or effectively impossible. Does anyone have a suggestion for solving or bypassing this problem? Bill Maddux
