Poet Erin Murphy is credited with the creation of a new poetic form. It’s called the “demi-sonnet,” and it’s a seven-line form, half the length of a traditional sonnet. It also doesn’t rhyme (or doesn’t have to rhyme,), and it leans in the direction of an aphorism. Murphy introduced the form in 2009, and her collection Word Problems: Demi-Sonnets was published in 2011.
I mention this because the idea of form, and related themes of order and classification, appear to have been a significant focus for Murphy’s poetry for a considerable period. Form helps establish order, as does classification. Murphy continues to explore these ideas and themes in her most recently published collections, Fluent in Blue: Poems (2024) and Human Resources (2025).
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
“A Noiseless, Patient Spider,” poem by Walt Whitman and “As I Was Going to St. Ives,” poem by Anonymous at Mother Goose – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
“When on My Day of Life the Night Has Fallen,” hymn by John Greenleaf Whittier – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.
Alight – poem by Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.
A Creativity Recess Kit –Bethany Rohde at Tweetspeak Poetry.
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