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WEEK TWO- THE LINE BREAK
Enjambment: the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines. – Merriam-Webster
Welcome, friends. I’m excited to dig into a topic dear to me: the line break. One of the most recognizable aspects of poetry, generally, is the line break. To be clear, prose poetry is great, too, but in this post I’d like to examine why a poet chooses to repeatedly press the enter key. How hard do you think about line breaks in your own work?
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In a recent Twitter exchange, a poet had asked if a poetic line can end in an article. My first poetry mentor, Alan Feldman, spoke about line breaks as an intention, an emphasis. I’d clarify that the break presses PAUSE, highlighting the final word of…
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