
Formal poetry is a beautiful art getting lost in the digital age. Let's write and learn about it to keep it alive!
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There’s a lot of AI on Substack. It sucks. Here’s a poem which only human petiness would think to write, boxed in the almost impossible prison of monometer.
Here’s my own recording of the poem—free of AI, absolutely no SUNO involved.
I am only twenty-four years old, and still I feel like my life is racing toward the end. I know I am not the only one of us feeling that way, for it is the world that has sold to us the idea that an unproductive life is a life wasted.
After the tremendous success of the Directory’s collab titled Sharing Loneliness, it is time to go back to the heart of this publication’s mission: promoting authors of meter, rhyme, and form. For this issue, we bring you some of the poets...
As many of you may know by now, I began this journey because of Edgar Allan Poe, and while my favorite poem of his is Alone, it is undeniable that The Raven casts a shadow which no other of his works can ever overcome. In the world of poetr...
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, via Wikimedia Commons.
Bringing rhyme, meter, and form back to the forefront of poetry online has turned into a mission for this publication. It is thus that we, the formal poetry community, present you with a...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Celebrating human ingenuity in poetry! Writer, advocate, unapologetic rhyme addict, and public enemy of AI content.
A lover of literature and especially poetry!
Poet and musician, Traditional Catholic. Dedicated to the pursuit of wonder and the preservation of culture.
Poet grappling with the ironies and incongruities of heartbreak, religion, meditation, and mortality. I write mostly in English, but also in French and sometimes other languages. First person ≠ autobiographical.
Poet - Father - Husband - Christian - Physics grad - Formal poetry nerd - I run a poetry blog over at whomadetheeyes.com. I only repost some of my poetry here on Substack; all of my work can be found on my primary blog. SDG!
"Time is a moving image of eternity"
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