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Prompt: Reinventing the Stanford Pain Scale

This prompt has been kicking around facebook this month around the circles doing NaPoWriMo (national poetry writing month, which most people use as an excuse to do some version of 30 poems in 30 days.) Although I saw it on my Atlanta poet friend Karen G’s page, who got it from Liv Mammone: “Reinventing the […]

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Sunday Poetry Prompt

We’re back! And vowing to be more consistent. A new regular series we’ll be adding is writing exercises and prompts, something we’ve been meaning to do. And one prompt that I, Johnny, am fond of is the tried and true random word selection prompt, where you pick between one and five words, and use them […]

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Follow up on Double Sestina

Friends, I couldn’t let it go. Here’s the problem with what has been moderately agreed upon to be Swinburn’s double sestina: first, it isn’t widely agreed upon, and some say it’s random, and secondly (and perhaps most importantly), it doesn’t follow the logic of the sestina. The sestina follows a couple of rules, or rather […]

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Sestinas

Let’s talk Sestinas. The Sestina is an complex form based in intricate repetition. It’s a 39 line poem attributed to Arnaut Daniel from the late 12th century, of Medieval French origin. The original Sestina is 6 stanzas of 6 lines and a concluding triplet envoy, where the end words, or teleutons, of the first stanza’s 6 lines are repeated throughout the […]

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