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It's going to be an odd class. You see, I never officially learned how to write poetry. I'm more of a mad, self-taught autistic savant poet which I think is a great qualification for teaching a poetry class. Better than being one of those English majors who knows all about how to dissect dead poems but nothing about how to make poems live.
The class will be free. That's what I know at this point. I'm not quite sure how other people do online classes--- do you know or have experience in this? Please tell me!
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Your class sounds cool, Nissa. I'd definitely be interested and look forward to more details on it. I started off writing poetry/(intended) song lyrics before I wrote prose and I think you're right about the effect of one on the other. I think writing that type of poetry contributes to writing prose which, if nothing else, is more sonorous or melodic and has its own sort of rhythm and flow to it. I never learned much about how to write different types of poetry, especially free verse, though, so I'm interested to see if those other types of poetry would help to bring more imagery and style variation, as well as the rhythm and word choice/placement that rhyming poetry does, to one's prose.
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