History: BikuHistory: Biku is a poetry form, called by Hadas a "poetic mechanism", similar to a haiku, created by Eran Hadas in 2014 inspired by and in honor of Tanya Reinhart's (linguist, activist and "one of Noam Chomsky’s favorite PHD students") explanation that "each media item could (and should) be have a threefold reaction. We...Read More

History: The BinaHistory: The Bina is a contemporary form attributed to Bob Newman when he decided to do like recipe books do with chicken, and find 5 ways to cook a sestina. This is one of the ways. Other ways is a 'Newman Sestina' and a 'Quartina'. Structure: • 5 lines total • lines follow...Read More

History: The Blood QuillHistory: The Blood Quill is a form created by Jim T. Henriksen in 2008 on the site AllPoetry.com. According to the man himself, on the post where he first presented it: "I am a huge fan of World of Warcraft, and this is for the guild Poetic Justice. This is written in...Read More

History: BragiHistory: Bragi is a form created by Thelma Allider and documented in Pathways for the Poet by Viola Berg. It, according to some, became popular through it's documentation in the 1950s publication Scimitar and Song. (so far, we've only found one source for this information, so this isn't completely vetted yet.) Structure: • written...Read More

History: The CascadeHistory: The Cascade is an invented/new form created in 2007 by Udit Bhatia. Structure: • this form turns on refrains: it takes each line of the first stanza, and makes it the last line of each successive stanza • other than that, there are no further rules, in terms of rhyme, meter, etc....Read More

History: A type of epigram invented by Edmund ClerihewHistory: A type of epigram invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), who introduced it in Biography for Beginners (1905) and continued it in More Biography (1929) and Baseless Biography (1939). Structure: • quatrain (four lines) poem of varying length • lines of irregular length • dipodic meter (two...Read More

History: ClogyrnachHistory: Clogyrnach, pronounced clog-ír-nach, (or even simpler a Clog Ear Nak, more or less) is a 16th codified Welsh meter, one of 24 official Welsh meters, and falls under the category of Awdl, or ode. Structure: Honestly, as far as Gaelic or Welsh forms go, this one is not that bad. Some get down right...Read More

Historia La décima es básicamente una composición poética de diez versos octosílabos. En forma de canción, la décima trovada, consiste de cuarenta y cuatro versos que incluyen una primera estrofa de cuatro versos y cuatro subsiguientes estrofas de diez versos que glosan la primera estrofa, terminando cada una de estas cuatro estrofas en un verso...Read More

History: The DinggedichtHistory: The Dinggedicht, or Object Poem, was first introduced by Rilke in the Neue Gedichte written during his middle period between 1902-1908, mostly in Paris, inspired by impressionist paintings, and was closely tied to the imagist movement of the time. The term, while sounding imposing, simply means thing poem. Structure: The Dinggedicht does not have...Read More

History: DrottkvæðrHistory: Drottkvæðr, which literally means 'recited before the retinue', is an Old Norse verse form resented by Snorri Sturluson in the Edda, composed ca. 1178-1241, in it's section Hattatal ('Enumeration of Meters'). For more information on the Edda, click here (link pending). Structure: • Each stanza has 8 lines broken down into 2 half...Read More