Today’s class discussion went over the poetic form called the Pantoum . The pantoum is a form that is four stanzas of four lines each, 16 lines in total.
The description and pattern for the pantoum is described in this post from our online textbook:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sears-eng-1141-course-readings-and-materials/2021/02/22/poetic-form-pantoum/
Examples of pantoums can be found in this post. In class today, we read “pantoum” by Marilyn Hacker and watched performance poet K McClendon read “Pantoum for What We Let Grow.” Both are in this post:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sears-eng-1141-course-readings-and-materials/2021/02/23/pantoum-examples/
Lastly, here is a post to use as a guide for our poetry quiz which will be next Thursday, March 3 in class:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/eng1141-d307-intro-to-creative-writing/2022/02/24/review-of-poetic-terms-and-forms-for-the-poetry-quiz/
Write on, all!
