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Hart Crane by candlelight, Longfellow on a cake, and the scoop on the amazing Patricia Smith
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August 2024

A Villanelle on Difficult Love... in Amphibrachs
Revisiting a joyful moment from 2012
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Scanning Trump
Lineate him how you will, it's still the same old story.
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July 2024

Is the Goddess a Formalist?
Towards A Poetics of Pleasure & Immanence
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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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June 2024

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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May 2024

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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April 2024

FORMFLASH: 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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February 2024

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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A Search for Cretics—Meter of the Dark Goddess
How I came to need poems in a mysterious meter that flies deep 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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