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Minimalism A Handbook of Minimalist Genre Poetic Forms

Teri Santitoro

First published 2020
Publisher Hiraeth Books
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Sandy DeLuca
Pages 208
Price $14.00
ISBN 9781087902050

The cover art is titled "The Trip". "Ars Amatoria" by Ovid is translated by Herb Kauderer

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Introduction (Minimalism A Handbook of Minimalist Genre Poetic Forms) Teri Santitoro Essay
9 Time Well Spent Robert E. Porter Essay
10 Ars Amatoria Ovid Poem
10 The Inconstant Syllable Herb Kauderer Essay
12 Animal Love Poems: The Bear Herb Kauderer Poem
13 "a trail through dark woods" Herb Kauderer Poem
13 "winter's hangover" Herb Kauderer Poem
14 "ace" xeno-unit Poem
14 "sol" Sakyu Poem
14 Acrostiku Poems T. Santitoro Essay
15 "The moons set" Phillip A. Ellis Poem
15 "The sun a point of light," Phillip A. Ellis Poem
15 Australian Couplets Phillip A. Ellis Essay
16 The Form of "Change Poems" Mark C. Childs Essay
17 Farming Titan Mark C. Childs Poem
17 Sunjammer Mark C. Childs Poem
17 The Meaning of Water on Mars Mark C. Childs Poem
18 To My Fellow Mind, Alan Turing Mark C. Childs Poem
19 Cherita: A Flexible-Form Linking Narrative Poem David C. Kopaska-Merkel Essay
21 Enceladan ice plumes David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
21 loam is new to Mars David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
22 "end times" David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
22 a cherita David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
23 Introducing the Cinquain Joshua Gage Essay
24 Echoes Michael Evans Poem
24 Just after the rain Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
25 Reminders J. E. Stanley Poem
26 Oh, the Inhumanity! Lauren McBride Poem
26 The Not So Simple Cinquain Lauren McBride Essay
27 "Inhumanity!" Lauren McBride Poem
27 Comet's Curse Lauren McBride Poem
28 "Comet Earthbound fireball" Lauren McBride Poem
28 "comet fireball, earthbound" Lauren McBride Poem
29 Cinquain: A Short Definition T. Santitoro Essay
30 Read Both Ways: The Cleave Shelly Bryant Essay
31 "time-space" Shelly Bryant Poem
35 The Evolution of a Byline W. C. Roberts Essay
38 Contrails: A Brief Definitions T. Santitoro Essay
38 One-Breaths, and Contrails and Tritrails, Oh My!!!!!!! Mary Margaret Serpento Essay
40 The Diminuendo Form Robert William Shmigelsky Essay
42 Have You Ever Caught a Dragonfly? W. C. Roberts Essay
42 Headless Hubble W. C. Roberts Poem
42 It All Returns W. C. Roberts Poem
43 "lie still" W. C. Roberts Poem
45 The Last Words: Epitaphs Herb Kauderer Essay
47 Epitaph for an Ogre Herb Kauderer Poem
47 Epitaph for Prince Charming Herb Kauderer Poem
47 Epitaph for the Banshee Herb Kauderer Poem
48 Epitaph for John Carter Herb Kauderer Poem
49 epitaph for a serial killer Herb Kauderer Poem
49 epitaph for an evil cyborg Herb Kauderer Poem
52 Empat Perkataan Shelly Bryant Essay
53 saudade Jerome Lim Poem
55 a quarter of the henriad Ruth Tang Poem
55 INDIAN SUMMER Rohan Naidu Poem
56 The Titan Shelly Bryant Poem
57 In Orbit Shelly Bryant Poem
59 Erasure Poems: A Minimal Form Created by Nature Herb Kauderer Essay
60 What Gutters Gather Herb Kauderer Poem
61 fighting over ice Herb Kauderer Poem
63 The Eye-ku Richard Stevenson Essay
66 How to Write a Fibonacci Poem Terrie Leigh Relf Essay
67 Her First Space Walk Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
67 Sister of the Blood Moon Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
68 The Trouble with Teaching Idioms to Your XenoSynth™ Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
70 "You will find happiness" M. C. Childs Poem
70 Fortune Cookie Poems M. C. Childs Essay
71 "Discontent is the first step" M. C. Childs Poem
72 All for Nothing Herb Kauderer Poem
72 Found Poems As Minimal Verse Herb Kauderer Essay
74 The Real Value of Time Travel Herb Kauderer Poem
74 Your Focus Determines Your Reality Herb Kauderer Poem
75 Farther than the Farthest Place Herb Kauderer Poem
75 upward vector Herb Kauderer Poem
76 ghost particles Herb Kauderer Poem
78 Introducing the Ghazal Joshua Gage Essay
82 The Haibun Label Robert E. Porter Essay
83 Haibun: A Balancing Act Herb Kauderer Essay
84 A Fossil Once Self-Aware Herb Kauderer Poem
85 Frozen Hurricanes Herb Kauderer Poem
87 Get the Picture Robert E. Porter Essay
88 Puppeteer Robert E. Porter Poem
89 Hay(na)ku/Sci(Na)ku — Six-Word Poetry Lauren McBride Essay
90 "daydreaming" Lauren McBride Poem
90 "space lies empty" Martin Tomlinson Poem
90 "Time consumes definitively" Martin Tomlinson Poem
91 "courage first step" Lauren McBride Poem
91 "long hot showers" Lauren McBride Poem
92 Haiku As a Ideal Medium for Horror Joshua Gage Essay
93 "asleep warm night" Joshua Gage Poem
93 "moon half hid" Joshua Gage Poem
93 "window ajar" Joshua Gage Poem
93 "wolf howl" Joshua Gage Poem
95 Holy Crap! Robert E. Porter Essay
96 "beyond Orion's belt" xeno-unit Poem
96 "beyond these flat grasslands" Oino Sakai Poem
96 Kanshi Basics Oino Sakai Essay
97 Creating the Combined Poem, "Alien Graffiti" — Experimenting with the 'Katuata' Form Will H. Blackwell, Jr. Essay
98 Alien Graffiti W. H. Blackwell Poem
99 The Katuata Poetic Form: Impressions of Its Distinction and Uses Will H. Blackwell, Jr. Essay
102 Alchemists' Plight W. H. Blackwell Poem
102 Vision of Vigée W. H. Blackwell Poem
104 Leapfrom 6x6 Poems T. Santitoro Essay
105 The Lune David C. Kopaska-Merkel Essay
106 "asleep on a rock" David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
106 "finch feathers flying" David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
106 "Luna whips up waves" David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
107 Addendum to care and feeding of unicorns, 2nd edition, revised Anatoly Belilovsky Poem
107 Nonet Anatoly Belilovsky Essay
108 Sorority of Slaughter: A Nonnet Dusty Wallace Poem
109 "One moment" Sakyu Poem
109 "spring eyes..." Sakyu Poem
109 One Breath T. Santitoro Essay
109 stars, like octane M. X. Kelly Poem
109 The Octain M. X. Kelly Essay
110 One-Breaths, and Contrails and Tritrails, Oh My!!!!!!! [2] Mary Margaret Serpento Essay
112 Finding the Poetry in Prose Poems Herb Kauderer Essay
115 Scents Herb Kauderer Poem
115 X's & O's Herb Kauderer Short Fiction
117 A Boy and a Gull Herb Kauderer Poem
117 Rengay: New Forms from Old Herb Kauderer Essay
119 the courtesan taken with an astronaut Herb Kauderer Poem
120 learning to farm Alan Katerinsky & Herb Kauderer Poem
122 Heisenberg's Homework Excuse Note Alan Katerinsky & Herb Kauderer Poem
122 Renku: The Social Form Herb Kauderer Essay
123 dreams bound by gods and gravity Alan Katerinsky & Herb Kauderer Poem
125 the dragon within Herb Kauderer & Ian Cherico & Tristan Davis & Warren Hoffman & Jake Griffin & Alex Jazembak & Mellenia Keyes & Abigail Moeller Poem
127 SciFaiKasen Mary Margaret Serpento & Oino Sakai Essay
134 The Myth of 5-7-5 Joshua Gage Essay
136 Fleeting Moments in Technology (The Natural Evolution from Haiku to Scifaiku) Jean-Paul L. Garnier Essay
138 Scifaiku: Brainstorming Techniques Wendy Van Camp Essay
142 Taking Haiku Moments and Taking Them Into Scifaiku Francis W. Alexander Essay
143 "going to college" William Landis Poem
143 "ten months of blue sun" Francis W. Alexander Poem
143 "tilted torus world" Francis W. Alexander Poem
144 "chill night" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
144 "discovering" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
144 "ship packed with c4" William Landis Poem
144 "starry night" Francis W. Alexander Poem
145 "field trip to the xeno-zoo" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
145 "force of habit --" Francis W. Alexander Poem
145 "Genealogy search -" Francis W. Alexander Poem
145 "scattered beyond our galaxy" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
147 The Scifaiku Suite Herb Kauderer Essay
148 Cemetery: A Horrorku Suite Herb Kauderer Poem
149 A Sprig of Hemlock: A Scifaiku Sci(na)ku Suite Herb Kauderer Poem
149 Empty Space Colony: A Cloven Scifaiku Suite Herb Kauderer Poem
151 Hay(na)ku/Sci(na)ku - Six-Word Poetry Lauren McBride Essay
152 "daydreaming" Lauren McBride Poem
152 "space lies empty" Martin Tomlinson Poem
152 "Time consumes definitively" Martin Tomlinson Poem
153 "courage first step" Lauren McBride Poem
153 "long, hot showers" Lauren McBride Poem
154 "eggs" Roxanne Barbour Poem
154 Sci(na)ku Tanka Roxanne Barbour Essay
155 "encrypted" Roxanne Barbour Poem
156 "artificial" Roxanne Barbour Poem
156 "flooded" Roxanne Barbour Poem
156 "imposed" Roxanne Barbour Poem
156 "monopoly" Roxanne Barbour Poem
156 "revealed" Roxanne Barbour Poem
156 "succession" Roxanne Barbour Poem
157 "aging" Roxanne Barbour Poem
157 "avoidance" Roxanne Barbour Poem
157 "earthquakes" Roxanne Barbour Poem
157 "oasis" Roxanne Barbour Poem
157 "Richter" Roxanne Barbour Poem
157 "seismology" Roxanne Barbour Poem
158 "generation ship" Herb Kauderer Poem
158 "you promised ice cream" Herb Kauderer Poem
158 Katuata, Sedōka, & Mondo Herb Kauderer Essay
159 "the baby giraffe" Herb Kauderer Poem
159 "the zoo animals" Herb Kauderer Poem
160 "spaceship rockets roar" Herb Kauderer Poem
160 "your mother called" Alan Katerinsky & Herb Kauderer Poem
161 "your intelligence" Alan Katerinsky & Herb Kauderer Poem
164 How to Write Science and Speculative Fiction Senryu Terrie Leigh Relf Essay
165 "a long journey" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
165 "beneath the ice" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
165 "generation ship" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
165 "global warming conference" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
165 "global weather change" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
165 "proof revealed at last..." Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
165 "stargazing" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
165 "starless space" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
166 "between worlds" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
166 "communique received" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
166 "preserved in ice" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
166 "weaving baskets" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
167 Becoming an American Sijo Poet Nissa Annakindt Essay
169 Sijo #1 Nissa Annakindt Poem
169 Sijo #2 Nissa Annakindt Poem
170 Sijo #3 Nissa Annakindt Poem
171 The Sijo Shelly Bryant & Lily Sun Essay
174 "armed in new technology" Shelly Bryant Poem
175 The Sijo Terrie Leigh Relf Essay
176 Sijo 1: Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
176 Sijo 2: Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
176 Sijo 3: Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
177 "dreadrul midnight encounter" xeno-unit Poem
177 "odd conversation we had" xeno-unit Poem
177 Sijo--a Quick Guide Teri Santitoro Essay
178 "silent watchers surveying" xeno-unit Poem
179 The Simon Sijo Marge Simon Essay
180 The Assassin Marge Simon Poem
180 The Silver Disk Marge Simon Poem
180 TRAPPED Marge Simon Poem
181 "The Seven Sisters" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
181 "We leave earth behind" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
182 Love Song to Space Song: Evolutions of the Tanka Herb Kauderer Essay
183 "an ancient river" Herb Kauderer Poem
183 "he watches rockets" Herb Kauderer Poem
184 the day the rebellion came Herb Kauderer Poem
185 "autumn leaves scream out" Herb Kauderer Poem
186 "these words on paper" Herb Kauderer Poem
187 A How-to Guide for Writing a 3x3x3 Shelly Bryant Essay
189 "Microbes..." Sakyu Poem
189 "shipmates" Mary Margaret Serpento Poem
189 "Splitting rocks..." Oino Sakai Poem
189 tritrails basics T. Santitoro Essay
192 Dividing Zappai from Haiku Herb Kauderer Essay
193 "what is visioning?" Herb Kauderer Poem
194 "many colored roofs" Herb Kauderer Poem
194 Helping Dad Herb Kauderer Poem
194 Katherine Again, and Again Herb Kauderer Poem
195 "Daily writing prompt:" Herb Kauderer Poem
195 "facebook reassures" Herb Kauderer Poem
195 "poems will divide" Herb Kauderer Poem
195 Day Job Herb Kauderer Poem
195 Moira Haiku Herb Kauderer Poem
197 "genetic chess--" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
197 How to Write Zips an Zip-Rengays Terrie Leigh Relf Essay
198 "determining their fate" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
198 "left behind" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
198 "not for sale at any price" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
198 "not for sale" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
198 "one last look" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
199 "so many stars" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
200 Afterword: Toward a Personal Definition of Poetry Herb Kauderer Essay
204 Who? (Author Bios) uncredited Essay