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2007 Membership Newsletter Intro

Your Work And Style Are Important

Just a word of encouragement to all who have gone to sites that just won't move fast enough for you to enjoy writing and reviewing. Hold on, a change will come.
There will come a place that will have enough space money and demographics to make it happen.

My prayer is that they won't abuse the users.
Also, another concern I have is that one will not feel like a prisoner or that they are under the rule of a dictator and don't feel the free range in their presentation.
Another thought is the reviewers are on different levels and tend to review others without indept understanding of different styles of poetry, meter, rhyme and understanding poetic terns and definition. We know many are want to be's and don't have the wisdom to just not review if there are any questions.
I'd rather move on than destroy or even diminish another poet's work regardless to whether they are amateur or not.
What are your opinions in 100 words or less. Let me hear from you.

BIRTHDAY RECOGNITION

As soon as the September 2007 Issue of our newsletter is fully complete, it will be added to this section in it's entirety. Each month the newsletter will include latest news, interesting facts, upcoming events, and member names.

We are always looking for new ideas and topics for the monthly newsletter. If you have an idea or would be interested in writing an article, please let us know.

You may have wondered where the Paradelle came from.

The Paradelle is a modern poetic form invented by Billy Collins as a parody of the villanelle. Billy Collins claimed that the paradelle was a difficult, fixed form consisting of four six-line stanzas with a repetitive pattern invented in eleventh century France, and the press believed the story and ran with it. Due to the extensive publicity, the Paradelle has made its rounds in the poetic community. Even though the form was invented as a hoax, the Paradelle has taken on a life of its own. It is still a difficult form, nonetheless, to practice which can be fun and rewarding eventhough the inventor may not have intended it to be.

The Paradell Structure

First Three Stanzas:

The first two lines as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas must be the same (repeat). Where it begins to get difficult and become more of a poetic puzzle is when reaching fifth and sixth lines. These lines must contain all the words from the preceding four lines within the stanza using them only once to form completely new lines.

Last Stanza:

For the most difficult piece of this poetic puzzle, the final stanza of the paradelle does not repeat like the preceding stanzas, rather the final six lines must contain every word from the first three stanzas, and only those words, again using them only once to form completely new lines.

The Design is simple:

Stanza 1: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4
Stanza 2: 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8
Stanza 3: 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12
Stanza 4: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

courtesy of our poet friend gungalo, poets.com.