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Every entry that is live today, in the order it was written.

Form7

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The Petrarchan Sonnet: Octave, Volta, SestetSonnet 14 2026-09-02
Haiku: Seventeen Sounds in Three LinesHaiku 3 2026-09-08
Line Breaks in Free Verse: A Working MethodFree verse 18 2026-09-17
Tanka: Five Lines and a PivotTanka 5 2026-09-21
Cinquain: Five Lines, One ImageCinquain 5 2026-10-03
Fourteen Lines, Three Turns: The English SonnetSonnet 14 2026-10-11
Villanelle: Two Refrains That Will Not LeaveVillanelle 19 2026-10-19

Exercise4

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Write a Sonnet in Forty Minutes 14 2026-09-05
A Line-Break Drill in Twelve Minutes 10 2026-09-14
Revise by Subtraction: Cut One Line in Five 10 2026-09-29
One Sense, One Season: A Haiku Exercise 3 2026-10-15

Reading note3

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Sonnet 18 Read Closely: What the Volta Does 6 2026-09-11
Bashō's Frog Pond: One Sound and No Comment 6 2026-09-25
Dickinson's Narrow Fellow: Fear Held at Arm's Length 8 2026-10-07