Free Verse or Traditional Forms
This week in The Canyon Poets Zoom poetry reading, we wrote and shared pantoum poems. Pantoums are poems that are found Malayan literature. A pantoum is made up of four line stanzas where you repeat certain lines in the stanzas that follow. If you were writing one, lines 2 and 4 are repeated in the second stanza, lines 6 and 8 are repeated in the third stanza, and you would continue on until you complete your poem. Here's mine: Muscle Memory I tried to murder my father. I hel


Haiku: The Next Big Little Thing in Poetry
Over the past year, millions of people turned to poetry to make sense of the world. Poetry can be found in nearly every social platform. Haiku itself has a tremendous following on Instagram with hundreds of haiku posts a day. As the world of technology evolves, we tend to desire content that is fast paced and easy to take in. I think this will one day be the case for poetry. There will always be room for the long epic poem, but people will be more attracted to a short poem li