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Poetry is written in lines as well as sentences. Lines have very different qualities and effects on the meanings of words and the path of your poem for you as a writer and for your reader.

week one: inner rhythms: your lines and stanzas

week two: lines of eight: song, feeling, movement,

week three: open forms: the visual space, organic form, finding form

week four: the long line: breaking through

week five: the couplet and tercet: polarities and movement

week six: vertical form: part and whole