Commercial Poetry

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

       In our first two outerviews we defined poetry as verbatim speech whose audience is all but limited to song lyrics.  It makes sense to...

       In our first outerview we established that poetry is a mode of speech, coming about because audiences feel the words are worth prese...

      Poetry is speech worth remembering.  (Believe it or not, that was the long definition.)  Because there are only two kinds--two modes-...

Earl Gray's 153rd Law      Most poets keep their art and their politics separate.  We have different blogs for each.  Recently, a cr...

     We begin by apologizing to Divya Victor for singling out " Locution/Location " from all the other vacuous dreck being put o...

     How long does brain surgery take if you know absolutely nothing about medicine?  Use a club to knock the patient unconscious, drill t...

Terminal Diaeresis      Newcomers often ask:  "Why don't people read or 'Like' my poetry?"      It's ...

Earl the Squirrel's 25th Law "Leave it all and like a man, come back to nothing special, such as waiting rooms and ticket li...

Poetry Genres: Part I - The Essence of Verse Before we categorize poetry let's take a moment to define it. IMHO, there are, at mos...

Commercial Poetry "Poetry, like bread, is for everyone." - Nicaraguan poet Roque Dalton What is "commercial poetry"? To ...