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Zina Gomez-Liss's avatar

Awesome poem! I loved it. And thanks for the shout out. If you want to know more pantoums and other forms I highly recommend Mark Strand and Eavan Boland’s *The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms.* It is such a great book with descriptions, history and examples.

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stephanie's avatar

I loved teaching + creating pantoums - I like making them from a free-writing prompt (Favorite Vacation Memory, Recurring Nightmare, How Your Day Started are fruitful starters), and you can also make them from random lines in textbooks. The chant-style that results is entrancing, and usually your subconcious chooses lines that produce a tone you might not have expected when starting the exercise.

You’ve inspired me to revisit the form. ♥️

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