I Jump, You Jump: Vulnerability and the Line BreaK
A poem’s line break creates a pause in the current line before the plunge into the next one—or off the end altogether—and to be vulnerable in a poem is to open yourself (or your poem’s speaker) to the reader, to invite that reader to jump with you. If the line is the diving board, the break is the bounce that flings us into the unknown. This can be scary but the well-crafted line break rewards the courage of writer and reader alike.
During this interactive workshop we’ll read some poems and examine the ways they use rhyme and enjambment to open emotional space, and work on crafting lines in our own poems whose breaks allow us to be vulnerable in unanticipated ways.
Participants in this workshop should brings poems-in-progress and laptops/notebooks.
Kim Horner McCoy grew up in the Missouri Ozarks and lives now at the edge of the Flint Hills of Kansas. She admits to being a cat person, but is otherwise agnostic. For more than twenty years, she was a university adjunct instructor in Missouri and Kansas. She has published short fiction, book reviews, and poetry in various journals. Her debut chapbook, This Bony Cabinet, appeared in July 2021 and she is currently working on her first full-length collection of poems, The Woman’s Belief Corps.
During this interactive workshop we’ll read some poems and examine the ways they use rhyme and enjambment to open emotional space, and work on crafting lines in our own poems whose breaks allow us to be vulnerable in unanticipated ways.
Participants in this workshop should brings poems-in-progress and laptops/notebooks.
Kim Horner McCoy grew up in the Missouri Ozarks and lives now at the edge of the Flint Hills of Kansas. She admits to being a cat person, but is otherwise agnostic. For more than twenty years, she was a university adjunct instructor in Missouri and Kansas. She has published short fiction, book reviews, and poetry in various journals. Her debut chapbook, This Bony Cabinet, appeared in July 2021 and she is currently working on her first full-length collection of poems, The Woman’s Belief Corps.
You can find her on Instagram at @kimhornermccoypoet and Facebook at Kim Horner McCoy Poet
www.kimhornermccoy.com
www.kimhornermccoy.com
 | Kim is scheduled to present at 11:15 on Saturday. PRESENTATION BLOCK 2 – ENHANCING WRITING SKILLS |
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