Michael Diebert, poetry editor for the Chattahoochee Review - Saturday, October 12, 2013
Michael Diebert, poetry editor for the Chattahoochee Review - Saturday, October 12, 2013
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Writers Circle Studio
Michael Diebert is poetry editor for The Chattahoochee Review and teaches writing and literature at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta. He is the author of Life Outside the Set, available from Sweatshoppe Publications through amazon.com. Recent poems have appeared and/or are forthcoming in The Comstock Review,jmww, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
Looking at the Poetic Line
Just as the sentence is arguably the fundamental unit of prose, the line is arguably the fundamental unit of poetry. More than image, metaphor, concision, or imagination—all of which are also crucial elements—the line gives a poem essential force and significance. We’ll briefly examine some theory of line, look at several poems’ uses of line, and discuss how more conscientious attention to this oft-overlooked element can inform and enrich our own poems’ potential.
Participants may email one original poem to Michael for inclusion in the discussion—preferably 30 lines or fewer. His email address is crazyquilt67@gmail.com. Please send poems no later than Friday, Oct. 5.
Michael Diebert is poetry editor for The Chattahoochee Review and teaches writing and literature at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta. He is the author of Life Outside the Set, available from Sweatshoppe Publications through amazon.com. Recent poems have appeared and/or are forthcoming in The Comstock Review,jmww, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
Looking at the Poetic Line
Just as the sentence is arguably the fundamental unit of prose, the line is arguably the fundamental unit of poetry. More than image, metaphor, concision, or imagination—all of which are also crucial elements—the line gives a poem essential force and significance. We’ll briefly examine some theory of line, look at several poems’ uses of line, and discuss how more conscientious attention to this oft-overlooked element can inform and enrich our own poems’ potential.
Participants may email one original poem to Michael for inclusion in the discussion—preferably 30 lines or fewer. His email address is crazyquilt67@gmail.com. Please send poems no later than Friday, Oct. 5.
Looking at the Poetic Line
Just as the sentence is arguably the fundamental unit of prose, the line is arguably the fundamental unit of poetry. More than image, metaphor, concision, or imagination—all of which are also crucial elements—the line gives a poem essential force and significance. We’ll briefly examine some theory of line, look at several poems’ uses of line, and discuss how more conscientious attention to this oft-overlooked element can inform and enrich our own poems’ potential.
Participants may email one original poem to Michael for inclusion in the discussion—preferably 30 lines or fewer. His email address is crazyquilt67@gmail.com. Please send poems no later than Friday, Oct. 5.
