I'm honored to see my poem, "Tiller and Shears," appear in Issue #104 of Neologism Poetry Journal: https://www.neologismpoetry.com/January-2026/.

I wrote it last spring, coming out of Jason Mitchell's "Poet's Myth" sessions and going into Christine Salvatore's "Building Worlds" workshop.

I'm crazy proud of this piece!

#poetry #poem #sestina #writing #neologismpoetry #icarus #garden #lgbtq

๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’”: "๐‘พ๐’‰๐’Š๐’“๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘บ๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’" -

A winter estrangement. Contraction, expansion and opening, drafts from the darkness too close.

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#sestina #fingertrapsestina #winter #friendship #aging #estrangement

Whirling Still | Waywords Studio

๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’”: "๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘บ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’‚ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ด๐’†" -

I account for the results of my fingertrap sestina experiment with a sample poem.

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#sestina #poem #poetrystructure #formsofpoetry #hybridpoetry #experimentalpoetry #whirlingstill #originalpoem

The Sestina and Me | Waywords Studio

๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’”: "๐‘ต๐’–๐’•๐’” & ๐‘ฉ๐’๐’๐’•๐’” & ๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’‘ ๐‘บ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’”" --

Part 2 on my new hybrid form of poetry, the "fingertrap" sestina. This one gets technical, moving from ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜บ I created it to ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ. I review the creation of the rules for the form and the meanings attached to them. Next week's final part will discuss the result of this experiment.

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#poetry #hybridpoetry #hybridform #writingpoetry #sestina #poetryrules #formsofpoetry

๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’”: "๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚ ๐‘ต๐’†๐’˜ ๐‘ท๐’๐’†๐’•๐’Š๐’„ ๐‘ญ๐’๐’“๐’Ž" --

Tensions, resistance, doubling-down, or just an itch to try and invent something? Either way, hybrid poetic forms are the real tradition of writing verse.

https://buff.ly/3PD0HhO

#poetry #writingpoetry #sestina #hybridpoetry #hybridpoem

๐‘ญ๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘พ๐’‚๐’š๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’…๐’”: "๐‘จ ๐‘ญ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“-๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’‘ ๐‘บ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’‚" --

https://buff.ly/4gEOt4i

An experiment with a hybrid form of sestina I'm calling a "Finger-trap." More iterations of this form may follow!

#sestina #experimentalpoetry #hybridpoem #consumerism

A โ€œFinger-trapโ€ Sestina | Waywords Studio

Nekrosestina

Leaves of gold and red make the announcement.
Weโ€™ve been sleeping, trusting lifeโ€™s green driver.
Now we see: soilโ€™s rich and grave appeal
Draws us down and grants eternal access
To the vast decay. Deathโ€™s governor
Teaches us how saprophytes conceive....

https://cacorbell.com/2024/11/21/nekrosestina/
#poetry #sestina

Nekrosestina โ€“ C. A. Corbell

A #poem which insisted on being a #sestina Dead Leaves: Alone I Reach to Watch the Light Away https://link.medium.com/DtVwGVRAjMb

Weathered - A #ClippedSestina

My contribution to #FromOneLine 348 - โ€œI don't know what time it clouded overโ€, read by me.

#WritingCommunity #Storytelling #poetry #sestina
@poetry
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Weathered - A #ClippedSestina

My contribution to #FromOneLine 348 - โ€œI don't know what time it clouded overโ€.

#WritingCommunity #poetry #sestina
@poetry

https://medium.com/@KokopelliBFree/weathered-1953c1886df1

Weathered - Stefanie Neumann - Medium

I wonder which wrapper it came in, this gift from hell, I couldnโ€™t see coming in time, and had I pulled over? This clipped sestina has been inspired by the writing prompt #FromOneLine 348 โ€” โ€œI donโ€™tโ€ฆ

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