
What are the AJIL's
Literary Criteria?
Inventions: should be original, interesting, and archetypal.
Convention: your writing can be surprising, but it should not be "experimental."
Craft: avoid mundane contemporary speech
Poetic Diction, Figures and Techniques:
Use these in your poetry,
and of course in your poetic essays, please!
Noble Affect: the emotional flavor of the piece should be fine, noble, high-minded and morally sound.
Beauty: your writing should create an aesthetic effect
on the reader's mind.