Since September 16, there have been 185 messages to the New Poetry mailing list, almost all of them provoked by Paul Lake's "Enchanted Loom" essay. There's been some free-verse bashing and mainstream bashing and formalist bashing and avant garde bashing, but there's also been some wonderful prosodic discussion, particularly from R. S. Gwynn and Robin Hamilton, on, for instance, how far we can describe meters as "natural." Dipodics get a lot of attention, so does the sonnet. It's well worth checking out the archives.
Tomorrow's a travel day. I'm working on a poem and hope to have a bloggable draft this weekend, along with some reaction to the New Poetry landslide.
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