(06-25-2011, 11:02 AM)critical mass Wrote: My comments about the meter are probably off base.
I have done some research and realize that Americans dont sylabalize
(is that a word?) the same as Brits and Australians do. So disregard my comments on the meter. Sorry.
I may need a forum that is more American to participate in intelligently.
David
you being a yank and us not being a yank has nothing to do with it. meter is meter. as longfellow and
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Donald Justice
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Suji Kwock Kim
Kimiko Hahn
Haven Kimmel
Galway Kinnell (born 1927)
Susan Kinsolving
Mary Kinzie
David Kirby (poet)
Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996)
Carolyn Kizer, (born 1925)
August Kleinzahler (born 1949)
William Kloefkorn
Etheridge Knight(1933–1991)
Kenneth Koch (1925–2002)
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Wayne Koestenbaum
Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948)
Ted Kooser, (born 1939)
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, (born 1946)
Alfred Kreymborg
Maxine Kumin
Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006)
Laurie Kutchins
Stephen Kuusisto, (born 1955)
Joanne Kyger (born 1934)
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Philip Lamantia
Fran Landesman
Joseph Langland
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881)
Dorothea Lasky
George Parsons Lathrop
Richmond Lattimore
Sanders Anne Laubenthal
James Laughlin, (1914 – 1997)
Ann Lauterbach
Dorianne Laux
James Lavilla-Havelin
Anne Mary Lawler (1908–1980)
William P. Lawrence
Robert Lax (1915–2000)
Emma Lazarus
Kelly Le Fave
David Lee (poet), (born 1966)
Li-Young Lee
Malka Lee
Lemon (poet)
Aya de Leon
Ben Lerner, (born 1979)
David Lerner
Jimmy Lerner
Rika Lesser
Denise Levertov (1923–1997)
Dana Levin, (born 1965)
Philip Levine (born 1928)
Larry Levis
D. A. Levy
William Levy
Alonzo Lewis
Charles Lillard
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Tao Lin
Sarah Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
Amon Liner
Sara Jane Lippincott
Jonathan Lamas
George Cabot Lodge
Ron Loewinsohn
John Logan (1923 – 1987)
Naomi Long Madgett (born 1923)
James Longenbach
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
Audre Lorde, (born 1934)
Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
Maria White Lowell
Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
Walter Lowenfels
Mina Loy
Felipe Luciano
Lydia Lunch
Masiela Lusha
Thomas Lux
William Whittingham Lyman Jr
Henry Lyman
Thomas Lynch (born 1948)
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Lewis MacAdams (born 1944)
Morgan Kalani MacLean
Jackson Mac Low
Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
Percy MacKaye
Nathaniel Mackey
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
Naomi Long Madgett
Haki R. Madhubuti
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Clarence Major, (born 1936)
Taylor Mali
Frank Richard Maloney
Tom Mandel (poet)
Djelloul Marbrook
Morton Marcus (1936–2009)
Joseph Moncure March
Edwin Markham
Don Marquis
Camille Martin
David Mason
Matt Mason
Steve Mason
Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950)
Harry Mathews
William Matthews (1942–1997)
John Matthias
Kevin Max
Bernadette Mayer
Frances Mayes
Janet McAdams
Robert McAlmon
Jack McCarthy
J. D. McClatchy
Michael McClure
Michael McFee
Bryant H. McGill (born 1969)
Karyna McGlynn
Mac McGovern (born 1950)(poet/author)
Michael McGovern
Campbell McGrath
Thomas McGrath (1916–1990)
Heather McHugh (born 1948)
Claude McKay (1889–1948)
Louis McKee
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James McMichael (born 1939)
Wesley McNair
Louise McNeill
Alexander Beaufort Meek
Abel Meeropol
David Meltzer
Herman Melville (born 1819–1890)
Samuel Menashe (born 1925)
Nancy Mercado (born 1959)
William Meredith (born 1919)
Billy Merrell
Eve Merriam
James Merrill (1926–1995)
Stuart Merrill (1863–1915)
Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
W.S. Merwin (born 1927)
Tom Meschery
Sarah Messer (born 1966)
Henry Meyer (1840-1925)
Robert Mezey
William Michaelian (born 1956)
Diane Middlebrook
Josephine Miles (1911–1985)
Joseph Millar
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
Alice Duer Miller
Jane Miller
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Joaquin Miller (1837–1913)
Leslie Adrienne Miller
May Miller
Tim Miller
Vassar Miller
Deborah A. Miranda
Gary Miranda
John Kearsley Mitchell
Susan Mitchell
Anis Mojgani
Paul Monette
Mong-Lan
Marion Montgomery
José Montoya
William Vaughn Moody
Clara Jessup Moore
Charles Leonard Moore
Daniel Moore
Jacqueline S. Moore
Jessica Care Moore
Julia A. Moore
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
Pat Mora
Barbara Moraff
A. F. Moritz
Hilda Morley (1916–1998)
George Frederick Morgan (1922–2004)
Richard Morris
Tracie Morris
Jim Morrison (1943–1971)
Bradford Morrow
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
Jennifer Moxley (born 1964)
Viggo Mortensen
Howard Moss
Thylias Moss
Louise Chandler Moulton
Anna Cora Mowatt
Lisel Mueller (born 1924)
Harryette Mullen
Charles Muñoz
Erin Murphy
Sheila Murphy
Pauli Murray
Sheila Murphy
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Vladimir Nabokov
Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
John Neal
John Neihardt
Jill Neimark
Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)
Arthur Nersesian
Kenn Nesbitt (born 1962)
F. A. Nettelbeck (born 1950)
Celeste Newbrough
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (born 1974)
Lorine Niedecker (1903–1970)
Audrey Niffenegger
John Frederick Nims
Lucille Nixon
Eric "Big Daddy" Nord
Jessica Nordell
Charles North
Jessica Nelson North
Jim Northrup (writer)
Harry Northup (born 1940)
Alice Notley
Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952)
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Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Ed Ochester
David E. Oprava
Blanche Oelrichs
Ron Offen
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966)
Sharon Olds (born 1942)
Mary Oliver (born 1935)
Alix Olson
Charles Olson (1910–1970)
George Oppen (1908–1984)
Mary Oppen (1908–1990)
James Oppenheim
Joel Oppenheimer
Peter Oresick
Gregory Orr (born 1947)
Alicia Ostriker
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Ron Padgett (born 1942)
Grace Paley
Cheryl Pallant
Condé Benoist Pallen
Michael Palmer (born 1943)
Jay Parini
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
Lee Passarella
Linda Pastan (born 1932)
Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972)
Josephine Preston Peabody
Richard Peabody
Molly Peacock
Harry Thurston Peck
Bryan Penberthy
Rob Penny
James Gates Percival
Eleanor Percy Lee
William Alexander Percy
Sam Pereira (born 1949)
Bob Perelman
Lucia Perillo
Alice N. Persons
Robert Peters
Marge Piercy (1936)
Nick Piombino
Robert Pinsky (1940)
Carl Phillips
Wanda Phipps
Anthony Piccione
John Pierpont
Josephine Pinckney
Edward Coote Pinkney
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
Lanny Poffo
Robert Polito
Ralph Pomeroy (poet)
Paul Martinez Pompa
Marie Ponsot (born 1921)
Carol Potter
Charles Potts (1943)
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
Kevin Powell
Julien de Lallande Poydras
Jack Prelutsky (1940)
Elizabeth Prentiss
Reynolds Price
Frederic Prokosch
Kevin Prufer
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George Quasha (born 1942)
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Kevin Rabas
Burton Raffel
Sam Ragan
Carl Rakosi (1903–2004)
Lee Ranaldo
Dudley Randall (1914–2000)
James Ryder Randall
Julia Randall
Claudia Rankine (born 1963)
John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
Sadi Ranson
Ron Rash
Stephen Ratcliffe (born 1948)
Linda Ravenswood
David Ray (born 1932)
Wayne Ray (Alabama b. 1950, now in Canada)
Thomas Buchanan Read
Janice Rebibo
Spencer Reece
Ishmael Reed (born 1938)
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Naomi Replansky
Paul Reps
Carter Revard
Donald Revell (born 1954)
Eben E. Rexford
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982)
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)
William Henry Rhodes
René Ricard
Cale Young Rice
Stan Rice
Adrienne Rich (born 1929)
Beah Richards
Laura E. Richards
Monica Richards
Lola Ridge (1873–1941)
Laura Riding
James Whitcomb Riley
Alberto Ríos
Tomás Rivera
Amélie Louise Rives
James J. Roberts (born 1947)
Howard W. Robertson
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
Edouard Roditi
Luis J. Rodriguez
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
Pattiann Rogers
Matthew Rohrer
Henry Rollins
David Romtvedt
Ronald Talney
Raymond Roseliep
Franklin Rosemont (born 1943)
J. Allyn Rosser
Terry Rossio
Jerome Rothenberg (born 1934)
Michael Rothenberg
Anne Rouse (born 1954)
Thomas Rowley (1721–1796)
Gibbons Ruark (born 1941)
Anne Rouse
Thomas Rowley (poet)
Gibbons Ruark
Mary Ruefle
Muriel Rukeyser
Nipsey Russell
Archibald Rutledge
Carl Hancock Rux
Abram Joseph Ryan
Kay Ryan
Michael Ryan (poet)
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Benjamin Alire Saenz (born 1954)
Michael Salinger
Mary Jo Salter (born 1954)
Benjamin Saltman (1927–1999)
Francis Saltus Saltus
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
Robert Charles Sands
Aram Saroyan
May Sarton
Minot Judson Savage
Jeannine Savard
John Godfrey Saxe
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
Peter Schjeldahl
Michael Schmidt (poet)
Dennis Schmitz (born 1937)
Gjertrud Schnackenberg (born 1953)
Dan Schneider
Pat Schneider
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842)
Susan Polis Schutz
James Schuyler (1923–1991)
Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966)
Patricia Roth Schwartz
Armand Schwerner
Peter Seaton (1942 – 2010)
Alan Seeger
Calvin Seerveld
Frederick Seidel
Rebecca Seiferle
Martha Serpas
Dr. Seuss
Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
Tom Sexton
Ntozake Shange
Ravi Shankar (1901–2008)
David Shapiro
Karl Shapiro (1913–2000)
G. S. Sharat Chandra
Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970)
Scott Shaw
Aaron Shurin
Eli Siegel
Lydia Sigourney
Richard Siken
Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948)
Edward Rowland Sill
Ron Silliman (born 1946)
Murray Silverstein
Shel Silverstein (1930–1999)
Charles Simic
Jim Simmerman
William Gilmore Simms
Marge Simon
Louis Simpson
John Sinclair (poet)
Hal Sirowitz (born 1949)
Judith Skillman
Myra Sklarew (born 1934)
Ed Skoog (born 1971)
Clark Ashton Smith
Edwin E. Smith
Elbert H. Smith
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Langdon Smith
Marc Smith
Margaret Smith (poet)
Patti Smith
R. T. Smith
Rod Smith
Rolland Smith
Tracy K. Smith (born 1972)
William Jay Smith
W. D. Snodgrass (born 1926)
Eliza Roxcy Snow
Craig Snyder
Laurel Snyder
Gary Snyder (born 1930)
Gustaf Sobin (1935–2005)
Roberto Solis
Gilbert Sorrentino
Gary Soto
Juliana Spahr
Anne Spencer (1882–1975)
Jack Spicer
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
Kim Stafford
William Stafford (1914–1993)
Ann Stanford (1916–1987)
Frank Stanford (1948–1978)
Henry Throop Stanton
George Starbuck
William Force Stead
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Elizabeth Clementine Stedman
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
Edward Steinhardt (born 1961)
Mattie Stepanek
George Sterling
Gerald Stern (born 1925)
C. J. Stevens (born 1927)
James Thomas Stevens
Wallace Stevens (1880–1955)
Anne Stevenson
Susan Stewart (born 1952)
Trumbull Stickney
John Stigall
James Still
Charles Warren Stoddard
Dejan Stojanović (born 1959)
Donna J. Stone (1933–1994)
Ruth Stone (born 1915)
William Wetmore Story
Mark Strand (born 1934)
Joseph Stroud (born 1943)
Lucien Stryk
Jesse Stuart
Michael Sturdy
A. M. Sullivan
Sekou Sundiata
Barton Sutter
Thomas Burnett Swann
John Swanwick
Robert Sward (born 1933))
Cole Swensen (born )
Karen Swenson (born 1936)
May Swenson (1913–1989)
Arthur Sze (born 1950)
[edit] T
Eileen Tabios
John Taggart
Amber Tamblyn
Luci Tapahonso
Nathaniel Tarn (born 1928)
Allen Tate (1899–1979)
James Tate (born 1943)
Bayard Taylor
Bert Leston Taylor
Edward Taylor (1645-1729)
Michelle Tea
Sara Teasdale
Michael Teig
Robbie Q. Telfer
Todd Temkin (born 1964)
Elaine Terranova (born 1939)
Lucy Terry
Steve Tesich
Celia Thaxter
Ernest Thayer (1863–1940)
Scofield Thayer
William Roscoe Thayer
Edith Matilda Thomas
Lewis Thomas
Lorenzo Thomas (poet)
Dunstan Thompson
Lady Gwen Thompson
Maurice Thompson
William Irwin Thompson
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
Tamara Thorne (born 1957)
Richard Tillinghast (born 1940)
Henry Timrod (1828–1867)
Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966)
Stephen Tomajczyk
Lee Tonouchi
Nick Tosches
Tony Tost
William Tremblay
Natasha Trethewey
David Trinidad
Quincy Troupe
John Trumbull (poet)
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman
Lewis Turco (born 1934)
Brian Turner (American poet)
Genya Turovskaya
Chase Twichell
E. Donald Two-Rivers
[edit] U-V
David Unger (born 1950)
Louis Untermeyer (born 1885–1977)
Charles Upton (born 1948)
Amy Uyematsu (born 1947)
Catherynne M. Valente (born 1979)
Jean Valentine (born 1934)
Cor van den Heuvel
Mark Van Doren (born 1894–1972)
Mona Van Duyn (born 1921–2004)
Sheldon Vanauken (born 1914–1996)
Reetika Vazirani (1962–2003)
Janine Pommy Vega (born 1942)
Jones Very (born 1813–1880)
George Sylvester Viereck (born 1884–1962)
Peter Viereck (born 1916–2006)
Nick Virgilio (born 1928–1989)
Gerald Vizenor (born 1934)
Judith Vollmer (born 1951)
[edit] W
Buddy Wakefield
Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
Diane Wald
Anne Waldman
Rosmarie Waldrop (born 1935)
Keith Waldrop (born 1932)
Alice Walker (born 1944)
Lonie Walker
Margaret Walker
Connie Wanek, (born 1952)
BJ Ward
Diane Ward
Catherine Anne Warfield
Emily Warn
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
William John Watkins
Barrett Watten (born 1948)
Jim Webb
Rebecca Wee
Hannah Weiner
Eliot Weinberger (born 1949)
James Welch
Lew Welch
Joe Wenderoth
Theodore Weiss (1916–2003)
Paul West (poet)
Philip Whalen
Mark Whalon
John Wheatcroft
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784)
John Hall Wheelock
John Brooks Wheelwright
Edward Lucas White
Gary J. Whitehead (born 1965)
Ruth Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
Reed Whittemore
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
Margaret Widdemer
John Wieners
Richard Wilbur (born 1921)
Carlos Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Richard Henry Wilde
Charlotte Wilder
Charles Willeford
C. K. Williams
Jonathan Williams (poet)
Oscar Williams (1900–1964)
Paul O. Williams
Philip Lee Williams (born 1950)
Sarah Williams
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
Elizabeth Willis (born 1961)
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Eleanor Wilner, (born 1937)
Edmund Wilson
Peter Lamborn Wilson (born 1945)
Christian Wiman, (born 1966)
Anne Winters
Yvor Winters
Sam Witt
Larry Woiwode
John Barton Wolgamot
Nellie Wong
George Edward Woodberry
Samuel Woodworth
Gamel Woolsey
Bryan Thao Worra
Patience Worth
C. D. Wright, (born 1949)
Charles Wright (poet)
Franz Wright
James Wright (1927–1980)
Jay Wright (poet)
Kirby Wright
Richard Wright (author) (1908–1960)
Elinor Wylie
[edit] X-Z
Emanuel Xavier (born 1971)
Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born 1961)
Leo Yankevich
John Yau (born 1950)
Al Young (born 1939)
C. Dale Young (born 1969)
Dean Young (poet) (born 1955)
Kevin Young (poet) (born 1970)
Matthew Zapruder (born 1967)
Marya Zaturenska (1902–1982)
Andrew Zawacki (born 1972)
Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930)
Joaquin Zihuatanejo
Louis Zukofsky (1904–1978)
will attest to.
american dictionaries break the word up in exactly the same way.
you're POV counts as it does for everyone else. irrespective of nationality. after all, it isn't you're fault you're a yank
as an aside, i can't recall seeing anything wrong with the meter in some of your poems.
sorry for using you thread to explain that everyone's welcome here jack
