[New-Poetry] Alicia Stallings on rhyme

[Michael Snider]

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=182841

She's my hero.  An excerpt:

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All rhymed poetry must be rhyme-driven. This is no longer to be considered
pejorative.

Rhyme is at the wheel. No, rhyme is the engine.

Rhyme is an engine of syntax: like meter, it understands the importance of
prepositions.

English is not rhyme poor. It is only uninflected. On the contrary, English
has a richness in rhymes across different parts of speech; whereas in many
other languages, rhyme is often merely a coincident jingle of accidence.

There are no tired rhymes. There are no forbidden rhymes. Rhymes are not
predictable unless lines are. Death and breath, womb and tomb, love and of,
moon, June, spoon, all still have great poems ahead of them.
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Huzzah!
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