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By Natalia Conte
Crafting Surprising Images within Medical Intervention Poetry
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Essays and writing prompts related to poetic forms from many historical and contemporary traditions.
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- ArticleBy Alecia Beymer
A creative prompt inspired by Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
- ArticleBy K.B. Thors
Kristín Svava classifies these stories as “þjóðlegur fróðleikur,” a beloved Icelandic literary genre that frequently memorializes dangerous and deadly wilderness journeys.
- ArticleBy Kwame Dawes & Saddiq Dzukogi
Writing teachers like to encourage writers to surprise themselves. The truth is this is such an impractical hope.
- Glossary Terms(Pronounciation: “guzzle”) Originally an Arabic verse form dealing with loss and romantic love, medieval Persian poets embraced the ghazal, eventually making it their own. Consisting of syntactically and grammatically complete couplets, the form also has an intricate rhyme scheme. Each couplet ends on the same word or phrase (the radif), and is preceded by the couplet’s rhyming word (the qafia, which appears twice in the first couplet). The last couplet includes a proper name, often of the poet’…
- Glossary TermsA letter in verse, usually addressed to a person close to the writer.
- Glossary TermsA golden shovel borrows a line from the existing poem and uses words from each line as the last word of each line in a new poem.
- Glossary TermsVerse that emphasizes nonlinguistic elements in its meaning, such as a layout that creates a visual image of the topic.
- ArticleBy Robert Fernandez
What happens when a poet takes inspiration from Mallarmé and a box of chewing gum?
- ArticleBy Nathan Xavier OsorioDialoging with Our Personal Archives as Poetic Method