FORMAL POETRY 1

 Make beautiful metric music! Read Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Timothy Steele, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Donne, Robert Frost and many more. Learn the basic meters and write sonnets and villanelles!

 This four-eek workshop is designed for beginners, covering iambs-iambic verse-Petrarchan sonnets-Elizabethan sonnets-villanelles-trochees-trochaic verse-anapests-dactyls. Learn scansion and find a new depth to poetry. Thursdays  September 7, 14, 21, 28, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Eastern. $199; PayPal to larissa_shmailo@yahoo.com.

 

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In-depth Interview about My #METOO Poem "&"

An in-depth interview about the emotional and creative process leading up to my poem, "&" which appeared in a recent edition of SHREW guest edited by Michael T. Young. Thanks to Christal Cooper for this kind write-up.

READ FULL INTERVIEW HERE

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#55 Backstory of the Poem "&" by Larissa Shmailo

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THE MORE YOU LEAVE

The more you leave, the more I want you back;
When you return, our love life seems to lack.
Believing you are unassailable
I yearn for you to be available.
And then you come; I cannot be more bored:
I like your leave, but not your coming toward.
Your distance charms, disarms my eager heart.
But close, I wish we were again apart.
Do stay away, and I'm forever rapt,
But now, you leave me empty, dull, and sapped.
So go away; I'll love you as before.
Love's ebb and flow is tricky as a whore.

My essay, The Combinatorics of Context, is now in Italian

My essay on Philip Nikolayev's embedded sonnets,  The Combinatorics of Context, appears in Italian in the international journal Grafias, This essay originally appeared in The Battersea Review edited by Ben Mazer.

http://www.grafias.it/i-sonetti-integrati-di-philip-nikolayev-la-combinatoria-del-contesto/

"Philip Nikolayev’s Embedded Sonnets: The Combinatorics of Context" published in Vol. 1 Issue 4 of Ihe Battersea Review, Winter 2015

My critical article on Philip Nikolayev's immured sonnets, which are vispo, formal verse, and experimental poetry combined, appears in the current edition of The Battersea Review

http://thebatterseareview.com/critical-prose/213-philip-nikolayev-s-embedded-sonnets-the-combinatorics-of-context

Revision of Poem in Iambic Pentameter ("The More You Leave")

The more you leave, the more I want you back.
When you return, our love life seems to lack.
Believing you are unassailable
I yearn for you to be available.
And then you come; I cannot be more bored:
I like your leave, but not your coming toward.
Your distance charms, disarms my eager heart.
But close, I wish we were again apart.
Do stay away, and I'm forever rapt,
but close, you leave me empty, dull, and sapped.
So go away; I'll love you as before.
Love's ebb and flow is tricky as a whore.

METRICAL EXERCISE: IAMBIC PENTAMETER ("The More You Leave")

The more you leave, the more I want you back.
And then you come and only give me flack.
Believing you will never come again
I pine and yearn, and prize you above men.
And then you come; I cannot be more bored:
I like your leave, but not your coming toward.
The dance of love taps fire when you're away,
and trips and falls when you return to stay.
Do stay away, and I'm forever rapt,
but close, you leave me empty, dull, and sapped.
So go away; I'll love you all the more;
Love's ebb and flow is tricky as a whore.