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and who we is

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I like when the form is kind of stuck-up …

Sandra Simonds

Men praise mountains …

M. L. Caughey

(A Tale of California's North Coast) …

Elma Dean

Assuming a virtue …

Joyce Sutphen

In the quiet house, on a morning of snow, …

Frederick Morgan

TWO POEMS …

Paul Eaton Reeve

When chapman billies leave the street, …

Robert Burns

Lovely panther, silver-sinewed, …

D. G. Bridson

The glossary

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.