Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!rh From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: Re: Form in Poetry Message-ID: <323@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Sun, 26-Jun-83 16:02:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.323 Posted: Sun Jun 26 16:02:43 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jun-83 22:11:00 EDT References: uwvax.945 Lines: 13 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