Di/Versification [new writing filter]

[bethr]

Last week or so I downloaded and printed out the pages of some British professor's dictionary of international verse forms. It's itching me like mad to try some of them out, but I don't want to be writing at a brick wall, either

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[anaisdjuna]

If you were going to be PC you'd be calling it Burma.... :-)

I'd like to be in. I certainly want to read. If time permits & inspiration strikes I might write too. I'd feel very lucky to get to learn & be exposed to all that lush sensual stuff! esp on the international tip.

:-)

[jacflash]

Oh, sign me up for the filter. I don't promise to actively versify -- I've got a hell of a lot of writing to do in coming months -- but I would enjoy reading.

[keyne]

What he said.

(And chanaleh too. I love verse forms.)

[chanaleh]

I *love* verse forms. Can't guarantee I will play along at home, though if anything could get me to, this would probably be it. Anyway, yes please.

[theslithytove]

count me in. I love untested "creative writing". That's what most of mine is.

[davidfcooper]

Sure, I'll read along. We've both done the forms class at our respective graduate creative writing programs; I admire your humility and willingness to experiment by essentially repeating the class 13 years later. Sort of like Satie taking a counterpoint class at age 40. John Hollander's Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse does the same thing as Newman.

BTW, that's a flattering userpic.

[bethr]

Umm...I sort of preregistered you anyway. There's been no action of yet, though.

re: userpic: don't you say that I have a way of manipulating the camera to give people [read: you] an unrealistically flattering image?

[davidfcooper]

re: userpic: don't you say that I have a way of manipulating the camera to give people [read: you] an unrealistically flattering image?

Perhaps, but that's a great smile :)

[bethr]

anyway, you get points for including the word "humility" to describe anything about me. Although that may just be wishful thinking on your part, b/c no one has ever used that word in conjunction with me, afaik.