Poetic Form – The Philosophy of Contemporary Song

A New Poetic Form: The Hourglass Sestina

I’ve been working with artist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker Lee Fearnside on an illustrated collection of poems titled The Fantastic Bestiary. During the writing process for this collection, I came up with the idea of an abbreviated sestina form that would usually take the approximate shape of an hourglass if centered on the page. ThoseContinue reading “A New Poetic Form: The Hourglass Sestina”

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My Latest Poems: Murdered Haiku

First, I would like to thank those of you who have been reading, liking, and/or commenting on my poems. You’re much appreciated. For the last one to two months I’ve been playing with modifications of the haiku that I’m calling “murdered haiku.” Traditional haiku have three lines that alternate 5-7-5 syllables (it is usually writtenContinue reading “My Latest Poems: Murdered Haiku”