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Form of the Week 17 – The Descort
THE DESCORT By Tad RichardsAt the encouragement of Lewis Turco, for the fourth edition of his Book of Forms, I tried my hand at writing a descort — a form characterized by its infidelity to any one...
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Errata Sheet for Turco's DIALECTS OF THE TRIBE, First Printing
ERRATA SHEET Dialects of the Tribe: Postmodern American Poets and PoetryBy Lewis Putnam Turco Dialects of the Tribe: Postmodern American Poets and Poetry, by Lewis Putnam Turco, Nacogdoches, TX:...
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Form of the Week 18 – The Folding Mirror
Dr. Marc Lynton Latham sent me this email message yesterday, Saturday, October 6, 2012:“Hi Lewis, I just published my second poetry collection, which is completely made up of (folding) mirror poems (as...
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Form of the Week 19 – The Elegy
On Thursday, October 11th, 2012, I got back into the classroom for the first time in a long while. The week before I had dropped in on Dr. Bennet Schaber, Chair of the SUNY College at Oswego...
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Form of the Week 20 — The Recipe Poem
On October 11th Clarinda Harriss wrote:"Dear Hotties:"Sorry if I'm taking liberties with that salutation, but it's a habit Moira Egan and I got into among ourselves when working with our Hot Sonnets...
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Form of the Week 21: The Octo
Jack FoleyRecently Jack Foley wrote to tell me about a verse form called the “octo” which he thought might have been invented by Nina Serrano. He included a poem by Ms. Serrano: MOON The moon the...
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Form of the Week 22 – The Hypallogo
Last week, while we were working on “Form of the Week 21 – The Octo,” Jack Foley wrote, “I call what I did to Clara's poem ‘writing between the lines.’ Here's the way they should look -- and...
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Form of the Week 23 – Pun Poesy
Many poets and critics in the 19th century, including Wordsworth and Coleridge, attempted to make distinctions between various related terms including imagination, fancy, and wit. The...
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Form of the Week 24 – Genethliacums
OCCASIONAL POETRY is written to celebrate a particular occasion, such as a marriage (epithalamion, epithalamium, prothalamion), death (elegy, obsequy, ode, threnody), public event (triumphal...
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Form of the Week 25 – The Carol
TheCAROL is a joyous hymn of no particular pattern lately, but it originally had a more-or-less set form that consisted of a two-line burden or textecouplet that rhymed A1A2 (the superscripts...
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Form of the Week 26 – Anglo-Saxon Prosody
The major form of English strong stress verse is Anglo-Saxon prosody in which the oldest European epic written in a vernacular tongue (as distinguished from the classical tongues of Greek...
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Form of the Week 27 – Pregunta
Forensic verse is poetry of argument and debate; a set form of the debate is the Spanish pregunta in which one poet grills another poet with a requesta (question), the second replies with a...
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Form of the Week 28 - Parody
The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship, Hanover: University Press of New England (www.UPNE.com), 1999. ISBN 0874519543, cloth; ISBN...
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Form of the Week 29 – The Interlined Poem
This week Jack Foley sent me a poem written in a form he has used before that he calls, “writing between the lines.” “The idea of the form,” he wrote, “is the interplay between the two...
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Form of the Week 30 – The Monsourelle
Leslie Monsour On Saturday, February 23, 2013, Leslie Monsour wrote me, “I wonder what to call the form of the poem…below or if I even ‘invented’ it. It's not really an invention, because,...
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Form of the Week 31, The Bluesanelle
Blues Image On Mar 19, 2013, at 2:35 PM, after I had sent a description of the “bluesanelle” to my poet friends, one of them, Clarinda Harriss, wrote me, “I love, love, love, love it! I am...
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Form of the Week 32, Vantydoo
Form of the Week 32, Vantydoo:"In 2013, when an OED staff member sought to look at the source material for the dictionary's entry for ‘revirginize,’ for which a passage from Meanderings of Memory [by...
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Form of the Week 33 - Nonsense Verse
This week my friend and former colleague Bill Whipple wrote, Hello, Lew, I've been wastimg my time wondering about this, and I thought I'd see whether I can waste some of your time as well. Has...
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Form of the Week 34 – The “haikoum” (and the “sonnetoum”).
While I was at the 2013 West Chester University Poetry Conference from June 4-8 I met many old friends and made some new ones, including Anna Evans with whom I discussed the pantoum and some...
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Form of the Week 35: The Sweetelle
Allison Joseph At the 2013 West Chester University Poetry Conference I served on the “Invented Forms” panel with Allison Joseph who, on 3/4/12, invented the “sweetelle” which is 10 lines...
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