Tilt-a-Whirl Archive
Ballad
Deor by Maryann Corbett
Now the Evening Deepens by Zara Raab
The Ballad of John David by Zara Raab
Ballade
The Ballade of the Danged by Mark Blaeuer
The Ballade of the Guy Who Gets It Right by Lance Levens
Ballade of the Bod by Chris O’Carroll
Ballade of Inevitable Extinction by Jerome Betts
Ballade of Noir Affliction by Peggy Aylsworth
A Ballade to Goodfellow Robin, Prince of Thieves by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Blues Stanza
Poe Boy Blues by Bruce W. Niedt
Miss Jesse’s Barn by Ed Markowski
Migratory Blues by Janice D. Soderling
Singing the Blues Between Mars and Jupiter by Martin Elster
Canzone
The Rolling Stones Rock ’n’ Roll Circus by Rick Mullin
Ghazal
Calliope, the Carnival Doll by Jennifer Reeser
Eine Kleine Kammermusik by Mary Cresswell
Image Ghazal by Holly Jensen
Ending in R by Judith Terzi
The One-Year Servant Talks To Himself by Joshua Davis
Summer Ghazal by Charlotte Mandel
Ghazal: Palms by Amy Watkins
Ghazal: Reality by C. E. Chaffin
Ghazal for Girlhood by Lucia Galloway
The Other Side by Mary Cresswell
Postscript by Shaune Bornholdt
Ghazal to No One by Cynthia Neely
Ghazal: In the Dark by Peter Swanson
Madwoman’s Ghazal by Leslie McGrath
Kyrielle
Thieves Like Us by Melisssa McEwen
Invitation by R. Nemo Hill
List Poem
Shrine for 16 by Susan de Sola
Once by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Jessie by Lynn McGee
Nonce
Triple Lutz: a Haikoum by Anna Evans
What rhymes with breasts? by Mary Meriam
Careful in the Fog by Bruce W. Niedt
Ovillejo
Duck Duck Goose by Jennifer Litt
Halloween Bully by Lois Elaine Heckman
The Ovillejo by Rhina P. Espaillat
Lines Written Just Before Driving into the Ditch by Janice D. Soderling
The Tease by Richard Swanson
Talking to a Vampire About Ethics by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Pantoum
On Loneliness: A Cento by Michael Levan
Hand Talk by Joan Wiese Johannes
From Her Own Mind by Patricia Barone
Everything is Relative by Joan Moritz
Good Daughter by Rachel Sawaya
Hostage by Susan Edwards
AA by Paul Hostovsky
Pantoum: a motley by Viki Holmes
Waiting for the F Train by Anna Evans
On My Visit to My Mother’s Bedside . . . by Frances Ruhlen McConnel
Halo by Esther Greenleaf Mürer
Pantoum after Jack London's “To Build a Fire” by C. E. Chaffin
The Road to the Interior by Nina Forsythe
Pantoum For Jesus On An Ivory Stage by Jeanne DeLarm-Neri
Dry Season on the Deccan Plateau by Anna Lena Phillips
Paradelle
Elegy for the Marys by Lynne Thompson
In Memoriam by Mary Cresswell
Paradelle for Stevie Nicks by James Wilk
The Elephant in the Room by Kristina England
Vasectomy Paradelle by Anthony Frame
Yoga by Karen B. Call
Lines from a Research Paper by Jan Bottiglieri
Migration by F.J. Bergmann
Quatern
Percy Seeks Amorous Adventure by Janice D. Soderling
Rondeau
Upon Leaving the House of Cards by Ed Shacklee
Curmudgeons by Don Thackrey
Rotten Date Rondeau by Jean L. Kreiling
The Elephant in the Room by Kristina England
You Walk by Laura Heidy-Halberstein
Rose Culture by Diane Elayne Dees
La Poupée Délaissée (1921) by Moira Egan
Gia Dinh by Catherine Chandler
Rondeau for Rhina by Terese Coe
The Mask I Wear by Ed Shacklee
Godchild by Jan Bottiglieri
Rondeau Redouble
The Reveal by Chris O’Carroll
Debit by C.B. Anderson
Rondel
Roomba by Tiel Aisha Ansari
Twisted Gothic by Ivy Rutledge
Fish Dog by Leah Mooney
QuickieMart by Dave Morrison
Defendant’s Testimony by Anna Lewis
Buster and Etta by Michael Cantor
Grammaticum Vitae by Margery Hauser
Invocation to the Dawn by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Burial Society by Pamela Starr
Reading List by Esther Greenleaf Murer
Second Act by Gary Glauber
Rondelet
The Language of Flowers by Susan McLean
Sestina
Roomba by Tiel Aisha Ansari
Twisted Gothic by Ivy Rutledge
Fish Dog by Leah Mooney
QuickieMart by Dave Morrison
Defendant’s Testimony by Anna Lewis
Buster and Etta by Michael Cantor
Grammaticum Vitae by Margery Hauser
Invocation to the Dawn by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Burial Society by Pamela Starr
Reading List by Esther Greenleaf Murer
Second Act by Gary Glauber
Double Sestina
The Fairy Tale and the Double Feature by Will Cordeiro
Sonnet Crown
Walking Paths by Susanna Lang
Terzanelle
Watching Reruns by Michael Cantor
Crosswords by Carol A. Taylor
Treinte-sei
Usquaebach, a Digestif by C. B. Anderson
Arrgh poetica by Esther Greenleaf Mürer
Trimeric
Sleepless by Sandra Soli
Triolet
Afterwards by John Byrne
A Trio of Triolets on Trouble by Jean L. Kreiling
Old Orchard Beach by Dave Morrison
Advice to a Profiteer by Mark Blaeuer
Visit to the Nursing Home by Mary E. Moore
Herpes Zoster by Lisa Barnett
A Simple Request Asked of My Doctors by Sara Gwen Weaver
All I Want by Bruce W. Niedt
Aloft by Ross Plovnick
Place de la République, Paris by John Byrne
Ad Lib by Susan McLean
Appeal by C. E. Chaffin
Crepuscule by J. D. Smith
Expertus metuit by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
Another Haystack by Chris O’Carroll
Dementia by Leslie McGrath
Villanelle
Somewhere by Kim Bridgford
Did You Knock? by Peggy Aylsworth
Return by Chris Wilson
Family Plot by Jennifer Fandel
With Regrets by J.D. Smith
A Pragmatist’s Response to Rodgers and Hammerstein by Donna Vorreyer
For Cherishing by Janice D. Soderling
Metaphor by Thomas Thurman
Bender by C. B. Anderson
Villanelle: Aghast by R.A. Riekki
Suicide Bomber Villanelle by Paul Hostovsky
Cardinal Numbers in September by Toby Bielawski
Villanelle Verte by Julia Fleeman
Circadian Lament, Sung to a Wakeful Baby by Maryann Corbett
Adareus the Jade Merchant Comments on the Nestorian Mission to China by David W. Landrum
In Uncle Sam’s Bar by Chris Bullard
Under the Microscope by Andrea O’Brien
Splitting by C. E. Chaffin
Denied by Marybeth Rua-Larsen
The Theme from Shaft by Rick Mullin
Maurice Utrillo enfant, nu, debout, jouant du pied avec une cuvette (1894) by Moira Egan
The Riff of Sisyphus by Michael Cantor
Prose Features
A Numbers Theory of the Sestina
and Similar Repeating Forms by Sara Gwen Weaver
Introducing the Quintina by Steven Shields
and Similar Repeating Forms by Sara Gwen Weaver