SPIRALS OF RHYTHMS AND FORMS

( POETRY EXAMPLES FROM ANNIE'S POETRY SPIRALS)

Spiral of Rhythms and Meters

Spiral of Forms

METER AND PROSODY:  A BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Some of My Favorite Books About Prosody

(or, for those who insist on an iambic rather than a dactylic title,

"Some Favorite Books on Prosody and Form "

FAVORITE PROSODY LINKS

Prosody Links from Around the Web (Click and Scroll Down Slightly)

SOME ESSAYS ON PROSODY BY ANNIE

Review of Rethinking Meter by Alan Holder

at Versification Journal.
What happens when an expert in the novel takes on the English prosodic system?  It isn't pretty.

"In Defense of Meter"
A succinct early manifesto on meter, postmodernism, and sanity.

"Metrical Diversity and Postmodern Poetry"

at Studio Magazine.

What are the symptoms of iambic pentameteritis? And what does it mean when the post-post-avant starts writing in the very same meter that Ezra Pound worked so hard to break?

WHY BOTHER WITH PROSODY ANYWAY? A FEW MORE ESSAYS AND BLOG POSTS

Excerpts from "Repetition, Repetition" and "How to Create a Poetic Tradition" from The Body of Poetry

At Michael Parker's Journal

"The Body of Poetry," Title essay of The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self

considers some of the broadest implications of poetic form.  At the Academy of American Poets Website

"Poetry and the Mouth," a blog post considering the place of poetic pleasure in the post-slam generation

MORE ABOUT ANNIE'S BOOKS ON POETIC FORM

A Formal Feeling Comes; Poems in Form by Contemporary Women

After New Formalism: Essays on Form and Narrative

An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art

The Body of Poetry : Essays on Women, Form, and The Poetic Self

The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse

POEMS

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PROSODY DISCUSSION BOARDS

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