Hi Joanna,
This is off topic but a nice side note. If you write in meter John Kinsella
is collecting metered poetry for the upcoming issue of SALT.
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Call for Contributions for a Special Metrical Issue of Salt
Edited by Annie Finch and John Kinsella
Poems, Essays and Reviews
All meters welcome
Send submissions (no attachments please) by email with brief bio to
Annie Finch <[log in to unmask]>
Submission Period:
Jan. 15-30, 2003
Aug. 15 - Sept.15, 2003
Salt is a print journal with a website at:
http://www.saltpublishing.com/journals.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: where is the current avant-garde?
> Doug - and Dave -
>
> Your points about the four, or five, stress line in English, commonly
known
> as the iambic pentameter, interest and cheer me greatly. But can you or
> anyone tell me where the notion came from, that the iambic pentameter
should
> consist not of four or five stresses and a varying number of lighter
> syllables, but of a set ten syllables per line?
>
> best
>
> Joanna
>
>
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