Hi, from the passionate poet
>as Douglas Barbour pointed out, many among us are professionals
>and more interested in poetry/poetics-related discussion than in
>getting our poems critiqued,
that's fine, if it's good for you - but many of us (and we joined this list
because it is TOP OF THE RANGE!) might like to discuss - with those of like
minds, some other aspects of poetry like writing a tanka, haiku, pantoum,
acrostic, sonnet, ballad, free verse, cinquain, villanelle, - the list is
endless. Many of us might want to talk about imagery, rhythm, rhyme, simile,
metaphor, senses, colour, humour, enjambment, satire, macaronic verse,
malapropism, masculine rhyme, feminine ending, metaphysical metonymy, motif,
muse, irony (why is it missing from modern/postmodern verse?) mood, tone,
canto, minnesingers and... and... and... and...
I didn't know about slant rhymes until Jon Corelis told me about them, duh!
Poetry is a lifetime - a life's work - please forgive this insistence but it
is so diverse, so dense, so loved, that we who slave over the page want to
immerse ourselves IN IT!
while still others >likely to post a declaration of their own interests)
joined this list to network
I joined the list because I'm on the internet and love doing web sites.
Lately I have met a great WA poet (unsung) by the name of Frances Arnett
Sbrocchi and I'm constructing a web site for her (& eventually teaching her
too) because her poetry is amazing and she should be heard around the world!
Her poetry is full of imagery, the female voice, it has a folklore quality,
rhythm - it sings on the page and it is short and doesn't bore the reader!
We are not all into epics either.
Hugh's idea about writing about the Olympics is the best thing that has come
out of this web ring in the last 2 months!
HH
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