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12 steps to writing homeless trauma poetry

A Character Poem Writing a character in a novel is a mystery to me. But a poem? A character in a poem has no deus ex machina in the last line. The poet is left at the end of the poem with an ambitious question: Was it worth it? The line structure, the meter, the […]

12 steps to writing homeless trauma poetry

Writing a character in a novel is a mystery to me. But a poem? A character in a poem has no deus ex machina in the last line. The poet is left at the end of a poem with an ambitious question: Was it worth it? The line structure, the meter, the cadence of thought, […]