May Dazed

May Dazed, a book-length cinquain sequence of two hundred and twelve poems, was written during May 2005 as a collaborative work by fourteen poets of the CinquainPoets online writing group. The sequence, in which each cinquain begins with the last line of the preceding cinquain, goes through several discernible movements as it proceeds. The final cinquain ends with a line identical to the first line of the sequence.

CinquainPoets brings together poets interested in the American Cinquain form, as developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey. Simply, a cinquain is a five line poem with a syllable pattern of 2-4-6-8-2. Currently with 125 members world wide, the CinquainPoets group includes some of the finest poets who are writing in cinquains today.

May Dazed contains cinquains by Andrea Da Costa, Cindy Tebo, Cris Staubach, Denis M. Garrison, Deborah P. Kolodji, Gary Blankenship, Hortensia Anderson, John Daleiden, Karina Klesko, Kate Steere, Linda M. Papanicolaou, Michael L. Evans, Claire Chatelet, Toni J. Layton.

May Dazed can be purchased on-line here.

May Dazed has been reviewed in World Haiku Review and Aha Poetry.