Commercial Poetry

A place for the discussion of poetry intended for an audience beyond poets.

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.       ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part IX - Crafting Drafts

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       So far, we've established that: I) Poetry is verbatim. II) Poetry is most often rhythmic. III) Poetry was subsumed by song in the...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part VIII - Manufacturing an Audience

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        So far, we've established that: I) Poetry is verbatim. II) Poetry is most often rhythmic. III) Poetry was subsumed by song in th...
Saturday, September 7, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part VII - Production

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      At this point we know that poetry is memorably speech, how to scan verse, rhyme, and use sounds to stitch words together.  So what do ...
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