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From: rccall@dartvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Blank (free) verse
Message-ID: <232@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 15:25:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 15:25:37 1983
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In response to Ron Blair's comments:

I did not mean to imply in my remarks that free verse shouldn't
be written nor even to criticize any poem that I've seen on the
net so far.  What I wanted to do was voice my opinion that free
verse demands careful craftsmanship as much as any other form of
poetry, and that there seems to be a rather common and widespread
misconception that any group of random thoughts thrown together
with a few line breaks constitute a poem.  I would like to see
more GOOD free verse around.
                              decvax!dartvax!rccall