Public craft talk
Form rooms
Drafts, questions, and arguments. Every note is public. There are no private messages.
General Salon
The whole house. Craft, news, and the weather of poems.
Shakespearean Sonnet Room
Fourteen lines, three quatrains and a couplet.
Petrarchan Sonnet Room
An octave poses; a sestet answers.
Villanelle Room
Two refrains braided through five tercets and a quatrain.
Sestina Room
Six end-words rotate, then gather in the envoy.
Ghazal Room
Couplets sharing a refrain, each one able to stand alone.
Pantoum Room
Lines walk forward by walking back.
Terza Rima Room
An interlocking chain of tercets.
Rondeau Room
Fifteen lines, and a short refrain that opens the first line.
Triolet Room
Eight lines, two of them returning.
Haiku Room
Three lines, a turn of attention.
Tanka Room
Five lines, the last two answering the first three.
Ballad Room
Story in quatrains, usually rhymed ABCB.
Blank Verse Room
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Quatrains Room
A run of four-line stanzas.
The Belliad Room
A house form. Full laws are still with the owner.