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Poetic Rhythm is Our Birthright
"Poetic rhythm is our birthright, a simple, complex, magical transformative tool as close to each of us as our own blood, breath, and skin. It is a path…
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Welcome to Annie Finch's Poetry Witchery
Poetry, Meter, Magic, Feminism, & Witchcraft
Is the Goddess a Formalist?
Towards A Poetics of Pleasure & Immanence
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An Imbolc Spell for a Goddess of Poetry . . . and a Tattoo
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On Magic and Poetry
An Embodied Sonnet That is Never Spent
Metrical Diversity in the Iambic Fog: How an Editor Healed My Poem After 43 Years
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Diversity, Constraint, and the Resurgence of Poetic Form
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Ok, So What is a Poem, Anyway?
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Metrical Diversity, Oral Cultures, and Matriarchy: Meeting My Younger Self —
— And Asking Your Help with a New Quest!:)
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When Is the Muse a Goddess?What is a Poet After All? And, Why I am Starting a Patreon Too!
How the Five Directions Changed Me Into a New Kind of Poet
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Perloff, Pleasure, and Postmodernism
Recollections of Marjorie Perloff at Stanford, and Some Thoughts on The Ghost of Meter and the Future of Poetics
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FORMFLASH 1: list poem by Jordan Perez
Why are most list poems ineffective? And what can make a list poem work?
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FORMFLASH: magical takes on contemporary and classic poems
Frank, succinct insights tracing how Poetry Witchery shows up in the poetic wild
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Urgent Call for Cretics—Meter of the Dark Goddess
Seeking poems in the mysterious meter that flies deepest under the radar...
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A V-Day Gift: Scanning the Rhythms of Passion and Peace in Sarojini Naidu's "Indian Love Song"
Anapests and bacchics, ghost cups and half wands, ...and a note on reading aloud!
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