Despite being a traditionally nature-oriented form of poetry developed in pre-modern Japan, the haiku may be the perfect verse form for life in the modern workplace. Think about it: At 17 syllables a ...
Quatrains in English folk verse are governed by laws that regulate the patterns of truncation (nonfilling of metrical positions) at the ends of lines. Each truncation pattern (we claim 26) is adhered ...
Free verse rules at the U.S. Naval Academy, an unlikely proving ground for young poets finding their sea legs. For the past 20 summers, the academy’s creative writing journal Labyrinth has been the ...