Day 1. Songs for the Speaking Voice
We say it a lot here: poems are songs for the speaking voice. They’re not just words on a page—not just stylized language with line breaks. Even free verse poems play with rhythm and sound in ways that reverberate, that echo through our physical bodies.
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