Our articles on new & classic poetic forms, from the sonnet to found poems &

Links pertaining to the villanelle, a formal poem of 19 lines with alternating repeated refrain lines & a strict rhyme scheme, which evolved from the pastoral songs of Renaissance troubadours, and links to read some of the most famous villanelles in

The ghazal defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.

Notes on form and content, commentary and annotations on Robert Frost's beloved but "tricky" poem, "The Road Not Taken" (published in his 1920 collection, Mountain Interval).

Notes on the form of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan” (1798).

IBPC judge C.J. Sage issues a challenge: Surprise her!

The sonnet defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.

Poems Representing Our Forum in the August IBPC

Notes on the form of William Wordsworth’s poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (1798).

'Insanity' by Patrice Gates, of Gandy Creek.