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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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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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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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January 2024

How to Handle the Perpetual Meter Monster
RX for a poet plagued by metrical exhaustion

December 2023

Ok, So What is a Poem, Anyway?
My Erstwhile Trusty First Definition, Thirty Years in the Making
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October 2023

How I Channel the Muse: On Meter and Eyes
Thoughts from India on meter and the origin of consciousness
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September 2023

The Naming: A Chant for 9/11
With Thoughts on How Grief Needs Rhythm
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August 2023

Do Line Breaks Affect Meter?
A Meter Mystery
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#SPEAKITTHRICE! The Revolutionary Power of Saying Poems Aloud
If you subscribe to Annie’s Spellsletter, where I share magical snippets of my poems designed to move will, mind, body, heart, and spirit, then you know…
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How Gwendolyn Brooks Invented a New Metrical Foot for Abortion
Adventures in Scanning Brooks and Hardy
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