Frieda Beasley Dorris (b. 1920)

Biography

Dorris lives in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the creator, along with Robert Simonton and Eve Braden of the Dorsimbra form. This form calls for four lines of iambic pentameter rhymed abab, four lines of short and snappy free verse followed by four lines iambic pentameter blank verse, where the last line repeats the first line.

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Poetry

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