Articles About Emergent Verse

• Emergent Verse | Bending time, form, convention

  By Ed DavisJune 17, 2022

  

  As intricately executed as Ravndal’s use of the villanelle form is, it was actually tone that first attracted me.

• Emergent Verse | The quiet work of the heart

  By Ed DavisMay 7, 2022

  

  “With ‘Concert for my Mother,’ Larry Hussman transitions from writing primarily nature poetry into the realm of confessional verse. The result is a deeply affecting and well-crafted narrative poem.”

• Emergent Verse | Sonorous Sibilants

  By Ed DavisApril 10, 2022

  

  “Poets love form — even free-versers like me, who let go of strictly prescribed numbers of syllables in each line (meter), number of lines (like sonnets, villanelles) and rhyme schemes.”

• Emergent Verse | ‘High Lonesome’

  By YS News StaffMarch 21, 2022

  

  Retired Antioch professor, poet and translator Harold Wright used to contribute articles to the News, concluding with a tanka, a strict Japanese poetic form.

• Emergent Verse | An Introduction

  By YS News Staff

  

  As I walked in Glen Helen pondering the first installment of this reincarnated poetry column, the phrase “emergent verse” came to me and I realized I’d found its title.