THE MAGIC OF THE POETIC LINE: A generative workshop in which we explore the craft of line breaks and other visual and auditory experiences

• Date: Friday, March 10 (Part I) ; Saturday, March 11, (Part II)
• Times: 10am-5pm, March 10; 2pm-5pm, March 11
• Location: SOMOS, 108-B Civic Plaza Drive, Taos, NM, 87557

Description: Part of what makes poetry a magical art is the poet’s ability to orchestrate language in a way that creates an unforgettable experience in a reader. Line breaks, spacing, and punctuation provide cues intrinsic to that orchestration. How do we determine when and why to break the lines in our poems? How might visual cues and punctuation further reveal a poem’s meanings? In Part I of this workshop (Friday), we’ll focus on lineation. We’ll write, we’ll consider an array of exciting possibilities available to us in the shaping of our poems, and we’ll write again, making new poems in which every turn of the line is a turn toward deeper meaning. In Part II (Saturday), we consider the ways in which visual spacing and punctuation further reveal a poem’s meanings We’ll write, we’ll arrange, we’ll erase, we’ll cut and paste.  Writers at all levels of writing experience are welcome. Bring paper and writing instrument, as well as your laptop, if you have one. (Part I and Part II are independent workshops, it is not necessary to participate in one in order

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