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From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Re: Form in Poetry
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Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 16:02:43 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 26 16:02:43 1983
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On Glenn Reid's comments on form:

In my high school literary magazine, I was always blown away
by the number of poems that were submitted to us.  I was
always a prose writer.  I found it freer of artistic constraint
and form, despite stereotypes of poetry.  Glenn was wrong,
poetry is easy to write.  That's why we got so many submissions.
After I read them, however, I came to a conclusion that would
say that Glenn's statement needs only a slight modification:
GOOD poetry is difficult to write.  That's why only a very
few submissions were printed.
			-Randy
			rh@mit-eddie