Voices Element of Poetry Workshop with Dario

Margaret Atwood writes, “The line is a visual indication of an aural unit and serves to mark the cadence of the poem.” On the other hand, poet James Longenbach, in his preface to The Art of the Poetic Line, links the definition of poetry to lineation:
“Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines.” Lineation according to Jack Myers is “The composition, length, type of lines, and line breaks used in a poem.” In general, the unit of free verse is the line. Let us look at nine ways a poem may be lineated and spoken about: enjambed, parsed, annotated, end-stopped, transposed, and more. Bring your poems to read out loud, and to view how lines in your poems achieve poetic effects.