[Newspoetry] dictionary of forms

[Joe Futrelle]

Hi Newspoets,

Ben Emerick suggested adding links which give definitions of the forms
in the forms index.  Here are definitions for the ones I understand,
and everyone feel free to contribute additional/better definitions.

Many of these come from William's Table of Forms
@ http://www.wordwork.org/table/index.html

20-consonant: A Twenty Consonant poem is a Poem that uses each of the
twenty consonants exactly once before repeating any of them. The use
of vowels is unconstrained. Sometimes, a poet may choose to repeat
each consonant indefinitely so long as no other consonant intervenes.

50-word: A poem with exactly 50 words in it.

51-word: A poem with exactly 51 words in it.

abcederian: A poem which either by acrostic or some other means, uses
letters in alphabetical order -- usually the entire alphabet.
[William, should this be added to the table of forms under "letter /
inclusive: serial"?]

acrostic: A poem in which the initial letters of each line spell
out a word or phrase.

advertisement: An exciting new poetic form which can help you lose
weight now -- without all the mess -- and has 30% more poetry than the
leading form.

anagram: An anagram is a poetic form in which the letters of a word or
group of words are rearranged to create new words.

automatic: An automatic poem is one the authorship of which consists
simply of appropriating text from some extra-poetic source and framing
it as a poem.

credit card: A credit card poem consists of four words, each of which
has four letters in it, with an optional expiration date.

eigenwords: [this is complicated, I'll write a definition later]

flicker: a combination of two texts which alternates between the
texts at some level -- word, sentence, paragraph.

letter poem: a poem in which each word contains a given letter.

lipogram: a poem in which certain letters are excluded.

portmanteau words: A portmanteau word is a neologism (made-up word)
made by coupling together two phonetically related words, combining
their shared elements. (e.g. "brainforest")

segregated: a poem in which rich and poor language are kept separate.

sonnet: [?]

subtraction: the process of deleting words from a text.

univocalic: a poem which excludes all but one vowel.

--
Joe Futrelle
editor-without-chief
Newspoetry daught calm