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Originally posted by Andrew Frisardi:
Yet even just plain ol' readers of verse give the old dog a kick these days, when all he wants is to bark in peace.
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This piques my curiosity, Andrew. What sorts of things do you recall reading that tell you even plain folks are kicking rhyme? I ask because sometimes the opposite is asserted, as when we saw the announcement that John Whitworth's poem had won the TLS competition.
I've seen the warning "no rhymed poetry" in the various entries in Poets Market, and I've read a comment from a reader on another, more FV-oriented site to the effect that rhyme "sticks out" too much, and I've seen reference, in a review in EP&M, to a professor in a creative writing program who doesn't want students to rhyme. And just recently, we've seen the commenter on Alicia's essay, who's surely a poet and a reader of contemporary poetry. So that's editors, teachers, and FV poets, but not plain folks, as I see it.
I'm not meaning to challenge or refute the idea, just wondering how much we know.
editing back: John, we cross-posted, but it looks like we're in agreement
