Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

Anatomy of a Viral Line: why some poems explode online and others do not

By Patricia Vila

A field guide to poems that travel fast without losing their soul, balancing clarity and surprise, writing for the phone without dumbing down, and shaping a turn that readers want to carry into their own conversations.

7 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse / Prose

The rhyme you cannot hear: visual rhymes and internal rhymes the ear misses but the eye applauds

By Patricia Vila

A close, practical guide to reading and writing poems that keep music without end rhyme, using quiet echoes inside the line and patterns the eye can recognize, so the page holds rhythm without asking the ear for applause.

6 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

The Minimal Poem: the fascination with the one-line verse and its immediate effect on memory

By Patricia Vila

A short defense of the one line poem as a precise instrument for memory and attention, where rhythm does the carrying, editing does the caring, and the reader brings the rest so that a single breath can hold a room.

6 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

Why reading one poem in five languages means reading five different poems

By Patricia Vila

An argument for translation as creative authorship that favors the poem’s felt impact over literal mirroring, inviting readers to compare five versions side by side and notice how each language remakes cadence, image, and cultural weight while keeping the same emotional center alive.

6 min read · English edition

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Poetry / Fixed forms / Free verse

Poetry in the age of the scroll: how the poem changes when it is born on a screen

By Oriol Puig

An essay on how vertical reading reshapes the pulse of poetry, asking for precision in every cut and images that endure beyond the feed, so the screen becomes another home where language can breathe with its readers.

11 min read · English edition