Form.Reborn ran on Twitter 16 March-21 August 2009
Form. Reborn was an experimental poetry journal that sought to boil the essence of form poems down so that they can fit in a mobile phone text message. Some forms can be tweaked easily to fit within the 140 character limit: haiku, cinquain, limerick, one stanza ballads, one heroic couplet, etc. Others, on the surface, seem to defy the bounds of possibility: villanelle, sonnet, sestina, etc. Can they be done with text-speak? Should they? Will readers want to track a few lines of long forms at a time until the series is complete? We published vibrant images and concise thought that readers enjoyed whether they were in a doctor’s waiting room, in line at the grocery store, walking to class, or…
Form.Reborn wrapped on 21 August 2009 with a poem series by Rose Auslander. A new project, unFold, is currently in the works. It will be edited by Rose, built on Form’s foundation, and crafted to expand the definition of poetry on Twitter.
Form.Reborn Author Archive: (in order of appearance)
- Christian Ward (London, UK)
- Nathalie Boisard-Beudin (Rome, Italy)
- Michael Lee Johnson (Itasca, IL)
- F. I. Goldhaber (Oregon, USA)
- Claire Askew (Edinburgh, UK)
- Ellaraine Lockie (Sunnyvale, CA)
- Peter Keller (Seattle, WA)
- Eric Burke (Columbus, OH)
- Rose Auslander (Brooklyn, NY)
- Savannah Barr
- Stephen D. Rogers (Buzzards Bay, MA)
- meika loofs-samorzewski (Hobart, Tasmania)
- N Sullivan (Sioux City, IA)
- Patricia Wellingham-Jones (Tehama, CA)
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TEN with F.I. Goldhaber « Folded Word Press // April 6, 2009 at 7:40 am
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One Night Stanzas » Blog Archive » Some recent publications. // April 27, 2009 at 9:00 am
[...] recently, three of my poems were accepted to Form.Reborn, a zine/anthology project which you’ll be hearing a bit more about later this week…! [...]
One Night Stanzas » Blog Archive » Featured Magazines #12: Form.Reborn // May 5, 2009 at 9:01 am
[...] Editor: J S Graustein Established: 2009 Based in: USA Website: http://folded.wordpress.com/form-reborn Submit via email: [...]
Creating Form140 « Form21 // September 10, 2009 at 12:01 pm
[...] Posted in form play, how to write by rausland on September 10, 2009 Form.Reborn of Folded Word Press was an experimental poetry journal that sought to boil the essence of form [...]
Seeking Submissions « unFold // September 10, 2009 at 1:28 pm
[...] 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment unFold, the successor to Form. Reborn on Folded Word Press, is a PG-rated experimental poetry journal that seeks inspired 140 character [...]