The lines of a poem create its rhythm and feeling. The line can slow a sentence down. The line can dance with a sentence. The line can break open the sentence. The line can take a walk as Paul Klee described it in painting. And because the line can make these many moves it lets us do more with words than the sentence with its rules of grammar and conventions of speech can do. The repetition of lines in a poem, its form and body and interruption of space and time, allows for many patterns and connections to weave meanings of their own. Every different kind of line has a music and attitude that enters into what you are writing. These are simple experiments that will show you what is possible with the poetic line. The cost above is for one on one class.

Week 1: Three lines: three poems

Week 2: Choosing a line

Week 3: The emerging line

Week 4: Holding the sentence open

Week 5: When the sentence behaves like a line

Week 6: The line takes a walk