Well, I noticed after throwing my little fit that the web journal exists to provide resources to educators. But this makes me kind of sad--that form has to treated as something on the side, not to be afraid of, etc.
In painting, the revival of representational pictures is better established. Nobody thinks it brave or quaint to make a picture that is not entirely abstract now, even though it was a rare college art curriculum that allowed anything other than abstraction and conceptual art in the 1970s. The tradition, which never died, of course, came back in full force. There were no New Representational painters, though there were heroes, such as David Park and the Bay Area Figurative movement that formed around him in the late 50s.
I like how Alicia has described how writing in form brings forth something that wouldn't likely emerge without the constraint... the glorious paradox. But other than that, I think we should avoid discussing technical aspects of form and look askew at anyone who would ask quaint questions. Otherwise we risk cementing the obscurity of the grand tradition in poetry in this dark age.
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