Tim, my enthusiasm for new poetry styles is due to never have taken any poetry classes during my measly schooling.  That's not to say I never heard poetry - my mother would often recite poems with the panache of a pirate - I just never was required to dissect them and try and glean the author's meaning or be informed of what I was required to think about a classic (other than Flanders Field).  So, when I arrived, rather late, at the discovery I was a poet I decided I better know a bit more about what the hell I was doing.  I will never forget how I felt when I tripped over a villanelle on a writers' site.  I was hooked from that moment!

hee hee .. I can't wait to try another one of these!