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How does a new poetry form become mainstream?

Posted by Team Poetrysoup on 7/18/2025 10:11:06 PM

How does a poet get a new poetry form they created to become mainstream? Are there strategic steps to help a new poetry form gain mainstream acceptance?


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Comment by Brian Strand on 7/20/2025 3:10:42 AM

My 'footle'( trochaic singular) was accepted by your goodselves circa 2009 as 'type of poem' & then I promoted it outside PS at various poetry sites on the net & via my blogspot.com profile.Later folk here at PS created the 'footles' sequence' version & like topsy it has grown in acceptance on the net ..literally worldwide.


Comment by John Anderson on 7/19/2025 3:21:18 PM

I have had one 'The Bell' accepted in the new forms area with a 'green' signal, but it has been thus for 3 years or so => not added.



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