Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Outerview Series: Part XVI - Poetry Exam

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 1. What is poetry?    a) Emotive writing.    b) Profound writing.    c) Humorous writing.    d) Memorable speech. 2.  Is a line more or les...
Monday, June 16, 2025

The Outerview Series: Part XV - Crossword Poetry

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      While doing your crossword puzzle you come upon the clue for 13-down:  "a Welsh doggy".  Looking at the grid you see it is f...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Outerview Series: Part XIV - Convenient Poetics

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          "Poets: Really, they're the laziest, stupidest people I know." - Christian Bök, 2009        Convenient Poetics is an...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Outerview Series: Part XIII - The Densuke Problem

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        The black Densuke watermelon is grown only on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.  It is known for its sweetness and rarity.  ...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part XII - The Meaning of Meaning

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      "Every songwriter knows you can sell form without substance.          Every prose writer knows you can sell substance without for...
Friday, December 13, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part XI - Attracting and Impressing

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      If you spend time on Q&A sites (e.g. Quora) the most common poetry-related query is "Where can I post my poetry online?"...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part X - Production

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      We've written and edited our best verse and, poetry being a mode of speech, not writing, we now want to find listeners.       ...