Roget redux

Just about two months ago, when I hosted Poetry Friday on Peter Mark Roget’s birthday, I celebrated the man with his entry for “poetry”.
If you didn’t get enough Roget then, you can now find online last week’s Washington Post review, and this week’s New York Times’s review of what the latter calls “Joshua Kendall’s fine [...]

Fib foolery

Gregory at GottaBook has invented a new literary art form: the Fib. Similar to haiku, but more precise. In fact, precisely
a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8 – the classic Fibonacci sequence. In short, start with 0 and 1, add them together to get your next [...]