"Sestet" Blogs & Blog Posts

From the number of views I got from the Collatz Poem poetic form I made, I’d say there are a lot more math-loving poets here than I thought! I thought I’d do another math-related poetic form today. Fortunately for those of you who aren...

Okay so, I realized that though I’ve not made much progress in my writing career, I have much to be thankful for. I have friends to thank. My family. Our two dogs. My best friend and personal editor. My then- but now-ex-boyfriend. E-publishing...

This is why I love the Brisbane sonnet: I’ve never heard of it before. Sure, we all know of Shakespearean sonnets or Petrarchans or Elizabethans—but what the heck is a Brisbane sonnet? A Brisbane sonnet, like every sonnet, has 14 lines; the diffe...

Can I be honest? This poetic form is a pain in the ass. Okay. Perhaps I’m exaggerating this a bit. But I genuinely did find it quite difficult. Always have. Probably always will. The Petrarchan Sonnet, like the Shakespearean Sonnet, is divided...

I’m fairly new to the rondel. (I’m fairly new to a lot of poetic forms, which is the whole point of this project). It’s a variant of the rondeau, which I like specifically for the repetition of lines, and a longer version of the ron...

From experience, we might say that the more structured a poetic form is—the longer it is, the more time you allot for it—the easier it is to express what you feel. That’s a theory. Then the simpler the poetic form, the more complicated it feels...

The shadorma is interesting. I hadn’t heard of it until recently (i.e., two months ago). It’s a Spanish poetic form that is composed of six lines (although, several shadorma may be linked together to form one poem that comprises them), an...