Mac McGovern

Interchanging Poetry, A New Poetic GenreBy Mac McGovern Poetry is the absolute beauty of the human heart expressing emotion in a form that delights, and leaves the reader with a feeling of contentment in one spectrum, and a feeling of remorse in another. No other form of writing has the ability and power to inspire the emotion created through poetry. There are more than sixty different popular forms of poetry commonly used today. Many forms from the Old World, have been Americanized to suit the American style for writing. Interchanging Poetry is a narrative combining poetry with discussion, debate, dialog, or description; using the poetry to emphasize the narrative. It is a new form of poetry developing interchanging literary devices to enhance poetic discourse. Generally, writers will incorporate a poem into their article, publication, or book to make a point or site as a reference. This is common practice giving the author of the poetry proper credit. This is not a common practice with poets, who write specific forms of poetry following established poetic format. Often, poets wish they had a methodology to explain why they wrote a particular poem or as a follow up to their thought process in creating the poem. When you write using the Interchanging Poetry format, you extend your ability to expound on the meaning behind the words written as poetic expression; giving the reader a greater insight into the wonderful world of what the mind conceived and has achieved through poetry. In developing this form,...