Quadrimesterly reflections: 2008/May-August

Time to look back.

I began this poetry blog four months ago, and after 50+ poems, my dabbling in this craft has led me to discover what poems I find enjoyable to make. A list would include:

         fixed-form poems, like haiku and sonnet
         philosophical poems
         political poems
         poems about poems (not too much of that! please)
         jigsaw poems (poems initiated from a list of words)
         shape poems (suggestive visual layouts)
         science/technology poems
         poems that play with words
         poems with radical syntax

Also, a bit of poetry and poetics reading, including:

         from The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition
             (but not all 2025 pages!)
         No Fear Shakespeare: Sonnets
         Leaves of Grass (Barnes & Noble Classics Series),
            Walt Whitman
         poetry 180 and 180 more, ed. Billy Collins
         The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, Robert Pinsky
         How to Read a Poem, Burton Raffel

One reference I like to browse:

         the poetry dictionary, second edition, John Drury


On to the next quadrimester!