Mining the Mysteries of Language
By Robert Wynne
In the early 1990s, a young man came up to me after a reading I’d given, and told me how grateful he was that I had read a poem about suicide, because it … Continue reading→
By Robert Wynne The Pythku is a variation on the Haiku, utilizing Pythagorean triples for syllable counts. Either the “3-4-5” or “5-12-13” triple can be used. You can write a single, 3-line Pythku, or a Pythku Sequence, in which each … Continue reading→
By Sam Cha, David Lehman, Ellyn Maybe, Mindy Nettifee, Amber Tamblyn, Cecilia Woloch and Robert Wynne From The Editor: When we first announced our yearlong writing challenge, The Gauntlet, we were pleased to find interest from many fiction … Continue reading→
Writes Robert Wynne: The Sonnetoum is, as you might have been able to guess, a cross between a Sonnet and a Pantoum. The form is 14 lines with 10 syllables per line, like a Sonnet. And it uses 7 repeating … Continue reading→