Ars poetica: hello!

[primeideal]

Hello! I'm primeideal, and I'll be sharing a few "ars poetica" poems I enjoy this week! :) A fair warning that there might not be much in the way of diversity among poets on offer (although I do hope to include some of my own poems towards the end, alongside published ones), but maybe I'll have a different range to choose later on.


Let's see, I guess I'll introduce myself as an aspiring mathematician. That might seem an odd way to get into poetry, but for me it reflects the emphasis that form and structure have in creating enjoyable poems. In the last few years I've had the fortune to study more poems in-depth and am very slowly developing an appreciation for, say, line breaks in free-er poems. But a lot of the poems I enjoy are somewhat reactionary and/or playful in their approach to other poems.

One style of poetry I've just been getting into are the metro poems of Jacques Jouet--poems mentally composed between train stops and written down, line by line, at stops. Again, this is a structure I probably won't be sharing this week, but it's another cool example of how interesting formal constraints can create new and (for me) engaging poems.

Hope you enjoy! Feel free to say hello in the comments and share suggestions. :)

(Admins, let me know if I've made a mess of the tagging!)

Comments

[lnhammer]

Math and poetry make sense to me.

---L, math and physics degrees.

[primeideal]

Sounds excellent! I enjoyed high school physics but unfortunately struggled to keep up at the college level.