Commercial Poetry

     We all know that people will read anything--jokes, advice, platitudes, aphorisms, anecdotes, anything --if it's printed on a pic...

     What marks us as Pixel, Page or Stage poets is not that we excel at  poetry production , promotion or performance, respectively, bu...

While the rest of the world continues to prefer metrical, rhyming narratives editors, judges and academics adore comparisons: analogies ,...

Earl the Squirrel's Rule #38 Judges, Editors, Forms and Meter :     Stories abound of great poems or poets being rejected by edit...

Earl the Squirrel's Rule #18     In Part I of this series we saw how doing one thing (in that case, DUM-de/trochaic rhythms) many t...

Earl the Squirrel's Rule #18      Why aren't you winning poetry writing contests or, if it's your preference, slams?  Why th...

     Imagine an anti-government political party hoping to form a government.  To any objective, logical thinker this makes zero sense.  It...