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form21 · 2Y ago

Sestina Obsession

Formal poetry fascinates me. Not that I can write much in the way of decent rhymed and metered poetry, but I love the discipline. I don’t recall when the sestina became one of my formal poetry obsessions but for a while I wanted to write a good one so badly that I kept a sticky [...]

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form21 · 2Y ago

Making the Implicit, Explicit

Making the Implicit, Explicit I have nightmares about being asked to scan poetry. I am a poet. I love poetry, even the classics with their rhyme and meter. But, I confess, I find scanning impossible. The first time I came across scansion was in grade school. I don’t remember the exact grade but I am

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form21 · 2Y ago

How to Write Twitter Stories

Intro I assume you know what twitter is. But anyways, as a microblogging service it began as an idea that would let people webcast their SMS text messages from their phones. As SMS were limited to 160 characters and the message then had to include info to get it through the system and on to [...]

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form21 · 2Y ago

Fibonacci: Math and Poetry

When I came back to writing poetry in 2006, I began by writing haiku. I then found myself searching for other short forms and I stumbled across a blog post discussing something called the Fibonacci poem. I was intrigued.

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form21 · 2Y ago

Prose Poety – The Ultimate Oxymoron?

Is there anything more oxymoronic than the term prose poem? When I entered my MFA program in 2007, I was bombarded with prose poetry. I felt fairly well read before I started the program given that I have been reading since I was three, I was an English major as an undergrad. But somehow, even in a

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form21 · 2Y ago

Creating Form140

Picking up the torch after Folded Word's Form.Reborn, we continue to develop flash poems by improvising solutions to Twitter's inhospitability to traditional line breaks. And so, the next chapter begins . . .

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form21 · 2Y ago

Exploring the Villanelle

Exploring the Villanelle France has a rich history of poetry innovation. The villanelle is just one of the many forms that developed as an imitation of a French model. The form entered into English-language poetry during the 1800’s. A villanelle appears to be a fairly simple rhyming form but it is

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form21 · 2Y ago

Elegy

Poems made from a succession of couplets, typically written in the following metrical structure:

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form21 · 2Y ago

Heroic Verse

Poems made from lines of iambic pentameter (one TWO three FOUR five SIX se’n EIGHT nine TEN).

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form21 · 2Y ago

Blank Verse

Poems made from lines of iambic pentameter (one TWO three FOUR five SIX se'n EIGHT nine TEN).

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