“But I hate poetry” well that’s because you’re doing it wrong. A poem of the type that we were told to write in this class is just a short, condensed piece of work that shows who you are and what you do as a writer.

What is a poem? Poems are generally short and dense. They near universally have some kind of rhyrhm. They make creative use of line breaks. They usually, not always, convey some kind of deeper meaning--writing in between the lines, as it were.

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