John Brantingham’s epiphany about formal poetry created six basic premises about how and why to write it. These premises are also the premises of this book: Writing formal poetry is intellectual game play. It should be fun. Formal poetry gives poets tools to say something meaningful. No one can really fail at writing a formal poem. Writing formal poetry strengthens writers’ free verse and prose. A formal poem does not have to sound like an old poem.  A poet should never have to sacrifice meaning to stay inside the form.

The Gift of Form: A Pocket Guide to Formal Poetry

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