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	<description>poems, mostly metrical, and rants and raves on poets, poetry, and the po-biz (with 8-string stuff)</description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Lee!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever you are and whatever you&#8217;re doing, I wish you all the best.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Kind of Ghazanelle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elsewhere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 2002 letter to Lynx (unfortunately I can&#8217;t link to Lynx, only to specific instances of its pieces), Khizra Aslam describes the form she devised and provides a link to her own ghazanelle in Lynx. It&#8217;s the third poem as you scroll down the page.]]></description>
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		<title>Old Work Newly Revised</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arse Poetica]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sonneteer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We Are A Kind Of Map A buzzer-beating three-point shot reveals We&#8217;re born to know our truths about this world, And so is everything: a fly conceals Itself till it&#8217;s grown wings and they&#8217;ve unfurled; A virus has the key for just that cell Where it can multiply; that cell, dying, Creates an army ready [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Ghazanelle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arse Poetica]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found the form yesterday, browsing through Lew Turco&#8216;s Book of Forms, and spent my Superbowl Sunday writing one. I&#8217;m not at all sure about the title. No Joke It used to be I&#8217;d wonder at her laughter — I&#8217;d try to tease her secrets from that tone, From how she&#8217;d turn away just moments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Lines</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1112</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arse Poetica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The January 30th issue of The New Yorker prints a poem (not available online to non-subscribers) called &#8220;Booty,&#8221; by Matthew Sweeney, which I rather liked on first reading. But when I listened to the recording of the author&#8217;s reading of the poem included in The New Yorker&#8216;s iPad app&#8217;s presentation, things began to fall apart. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Left to Lose</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1109</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[triolet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With nothing left to lose, I&#8217;d be lost, And so might you. When all you&#8217;ve loved is gone, Nothing remains which might defray that cost. With nothing left to lose, I&#8217;d be lost Just like a losing lotto ticket tossed Away when I have nothing left to pawn. With nothing left to lose, I&#8217;d be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New twiplet, for Lew&#8217;s new book</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1105</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tweeted a slightly different version of this earlier today: Confused by my bedazzled look? Lew Turco&#8217;s done just what it took And put two twiplets in his book! Buy The Book of Forms]]></description>
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		<title>Silly Me!</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1097</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I told you about Lewis Turco&#8216;s new edition of The Book of Forms with my twiplets in it, but I didn&#8217;t let you know where to buy it. Why not straight from the publisher, the University Press of New England?]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis Turco&#8217;s The Book of Forms, 4th Ed.</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1085</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The book&#8217;s been indispensable for me since the 1968 1st edition (which Lew was kind enough to sign for me a few years ago) and I am very proud to say the new edition is out and includes a form I devised for Twitter and originally called a twinnet. I now call it a twiplet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 from Sherman Alexie</title>
		<link>http://mikesnider.org/formalblog/?p=1084</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love these poems from Sherman Alexie – http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-2011/three-poems There&#8217;s a small pay wall. It&#8217;s worth it.]]></description>
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