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                                    The Cinquain Page   The Cinquain Page of AMAZE is the primary web
                                    resource pertinent to the cinquain form.

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                  ORGANIZATIONS & COMMUNITIES

CinquainPoets   CinquainPoets is an online community of cinquain poets who meet in an open membership e-list on Yahoo!Groups. Some of the best poets in this form are members of CinquainPoets. This is a must visit site.

WHC Shortverses List   WHCshortverses is an online community of poets interested in a number of short poetic forms, including cinquains. You must join the group to participate; details available onsite. This is one of many such e-lists managed by The World Haiku Club.

the cinquain city   The online chapbook of a community of cinquain poets; appears not to have been updated since 1997.

 

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                  WEBZINES & JOURNALS

Amaze: The Cinquain Journal   Print and webzine biannual publication specializing in cinquains in the tradition of Adelaide Crapsey and innovative cinquain forms. The primary web resource for the cinquain form.

World Haiku Review (WHR) is one of the few webzines that publish quality cinquains.
WHR August 2001   WHCshortverses Selections: Cinquain - Selected by Werner Reichhold.
WHR November 2001   WHCshortverses: Cinquain - Selected by Elizabeth St Jacques, Sault St. Marie, Canada.

Autumn Leaves   This webzine publishes cinquains from time to time. Autumn Leaves gives preference in publication to Native Americans, but other poets also may be published.

American Cinqu@in   A webzine which specialized in Crapseian cinquains; it may be defunct as it appears not to have been updated since 2000.

Sol Magazine  An international group of volunteers and members interested in the promotion of poetry and education of poets. Visit http://www.sol-magazine.org for Membership Information and Submission Guidelines

Noochbomb  From their mission statement:  "We'd rather like poems we can't explain, than explain poems we can't like. We're not critics, in other words: We're writers. We want to publish the poems and stories you're afraid to send out — even though you're sure the work resonates."

Modern English Tanka   MET will publish cinquains as "set form tanka," i.e. without titles and written in a "tanka spirit." 

 

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                  EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES & ARTICLES

 

Cinquain Watch project - a blog at  for news related to cinquains

                   TRADITIONAL CINQUAINS - Forms consistent with the original cinquain.

Cinquain   William Firesheets' and Michelle Leasure's Poetics Workshop page on the cinquain.

Forms: Cinquain   Sol Magazine's description of the cinquain.

Kalliope Online Poetry Workshop: Are Cinquains a Cinch?   Brief guidelines.

Writer's Resource Center   Poetry in Forms Series: Cinquain, article by John Hewitt.

Poets' Corner   Selected poetry by Adelaide Crapsey, including some cinquains.

 

                  DIDACTIC CINQUAINS - Nontraditional forms for teaching small children.

CanTeach! How to Write a Cinquain   Word-count and syllabic cinquains for children.

Cinquain & Diamonte Poety   Poetry Pals - syllabic cinquains for children.

Cinquain Poetry   Themed-lines didactic cinquains for children.

Cinquain Poetry   Word-count didactic cinquains for children.

Houghton Mifflin Wacky Web Tales   Cinquain-generating form.

The Unicorn Pen   Themed-lines didactic cinquains for children.

How to Write a Cinquain   Girl Scouts' webpage on word-count didactic cinquains.

Try a Cinquain Poem!   Word-count didactic cinquain generator form.

Cinquain   Dia Center for the Arts page of children's cinquains.

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                  PERSONAL WEBSITES & LINKS PAGES

AHA! POETRY   See Jane Reichhold's cinquain page. It includes guidelines on cinquains as well as personal pages of cinquains by three poets. See also the discussion of Adelaide Crapsey in Tanka and Haiku Come to America, which is Chapter 2 of the online book, Those Women Writing Haiku, by Jane Reichhold.

Open Directory Project   Cinquain links page.

Cinquain   Personal page of David Owen Kubiatowicz.

The Cinquains of Crystal Rose   Personal page of Crystal Rose.

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/erinharte/cinquain.htm  Erin Harte's Cinquain page

 

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                  PRINT MEDIA

Amaze: The Cinquain Journal   Biannual magazine specializing in cinquains in the tradition of Adelaide Crapsey and in innovative cinquain forms. A primary resource for the cinquain form.

How to Write A Cinquain   Neca Stoller's book on writing cinquains; Street Saint Publications.

 

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