Annie Finch's Five Directions

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Ok, So What is a Poem, Anyway?

How I Channel the Muse: On Meter and Eyes

The Naming: A Chant for 9/11

Do Line Breaks Affect Meter?

#SPEAKITTHRICE! The Revolutionary Power of Saying Poems Aloud

How Gwendolyn Brooks Invented a New Metrical Foot for Abortion

Diversity, Constraint, and the Resurgence of Poetic Form

A Place for Abstraction: No Ideas But in Metrical Things?

Special Announcement: Scanning Dactyls!

Metrical Diversity in the Iambic Fog: How an Editor Healed My Poem After 43 Years

Poetry Witchery Q&A: The Proper Meter for a Villanelle

Meter, Gender, Control: Yeats' Iambic Struggle in "When You Are Old and Gray" (conclusion)

Abortion as a Sacrament (Celebrating LIBER: A FEMINIST REVIEW)

Midwifing Double Ghost Dactyls

About The Scansion Cauldron

Moon that is linking our daughters'/Choices, and still more beginnings . . .

Iambic Pentameters in a Free-Verse Poem by Arda Collins

CAULDRON OF LINKS

Sex, Romance, and Tradition in the Love Sonnet

An Imbolc Spell for a Goddess of Poetry . . . and a Tattoo

Meter, Gender, Control: Yeats' Iambic Struggle in "When You Are Old"

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