Line division seems to be tricky for me -- I've dived back into writing poetry this year, and am naturally inclined to line break when I reach a natural pause in thought, or to allow an emphasis on a piece of language, to let it linger longer than a brief moment. But I also think it's fair to say that prose poetry has its own place within the genre even without the traditional line breaks we're used to seeing. Use of spacing is as artistic and intentional as it is functional.
So true that it can also be about the visual. And, good point about prose poetry. Both of those make us think you might like the work of Karla Van Vliet: https://everydaypoems.substack.com/t/karla-van-vliet (click into "Cerulean" and you can see a picture of the poem if you scroll down)
A fun exercise sometime: change up the line breaks significantly in your poem, and see how it changes the experience :)
Line division seems to be tricky for me -- I've dived back into writing poetry this year, and am naturally inclined to line break when I reach a natural pause in thought, or to allow an emphasis on a piece of language, to let it linger longer than a brief moment. But I also think it's fair to say that prose poetry has its own place within the genre even without the traditional line breaks we're used to seeing. Use of spacing is as artistic and intentional as it is functional.
So true that it can also be about the visual. And, good point about prose poetry. Both of those make us think you might like the work of Karla Van Vliet: https://everydaypoems.substack.com/t/karla-van-vliet (click into "Cerulean" and you can see a picture of the poem if you scroll down)
A fun exercise sometime: change up the line breaks significantly in your poem, and see how it changes the experience :)