forms
Two Houses!
Two Houses making rice cakes:
Autumn rain.
what is a Haiku?
Not I, you idiot, not self, but we
who is Louise Gluck
this type of line pauses naturally at its end, as if it could stand on its own as a distinct grammatical unit or even a sentence.
what is an end-stopped line
do you know what it’s like to live
on land who loves you back?
who is Danez Smith
And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.
who was Constantine Cavafy: Waiting for the Barbarians
What is a ghazal?
I begin with love, hoping to end there.
who is Jericho Brown
The first of the 5 poetic elements that we studied
what is voice
the great thing/is not having/a mind. Feelings:/ oh I have those....
who is Louise Gluck
Khadijah means wife of the prophet.
Nothing about my name
is casual.
Who is Khadijah Queen / "Any Other Name"
The title poem of the last book we read is a modern version of this originally Italian form
what is a sonnet
The hollow, unearthly hour of night. Swaying vessel of emptiness.
what is 4 AM by Ed Hirsch
this kind of line has a spilling-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without end punctuation
what is an enjambed line?
Bells knell when the keep gets leveled; then Greek rebels cheer when Helen enters her Greek temple (the steepled glebe where jeweled steeples shelter her ephebes);
who is Christian Bok; Eunoia
poetic form from Malaysia where 2 lines from one stanza appear in the next stanza
what is a pantoum?
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
what is a vilanelle
There are cemeteries that are lonely, graves full of bones that do not make a sound
what is "Nothing but Death" by Pablo Neruda
often the first line of a haiku that gives a reader a seasonal reference
what is a kigo
We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another. We seek harm to none and harmony for all. Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true. That even as we grieved, we grew. That even as we hurt, we hoped; that even as we tired, we tried; that we’ll forever be tied together, victorious. Not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division.
Who is Amanda Gorman / "The Hill We Climb" (the inaugural poem)
a paper that takes us on a walk through a poem
what is an explication
A poem is a gesture towards home. It makes dark demands I call my own.
Memory makes demands darker than my own: My last love drove a burgundy car.
My first love drove a burgundy car. He was fast and awful, tall as my father.
what is a duplex
thees wite skirtes / & orang
sweters / i wont / inn the feedynge marte
Who is Jos Charles; Feeld
A type of metaphor in which a related term is substituted for the word itself. Often the substitution is based on a material, causal, or conceptual relation between things.
what is Metonymy
i hear it jingling in the pockets of the innocent heirs of fundamentally well-meaning transatlantic traders and new world farmers.
Who is Evie Shockley -- "It: A User's Guide
An handy hap ichabbe yhent ichot from heavene it is mi sent
Alysoun /anonymous poem