How to Punctuate Poetry
A quick guide to sculpting language.
5 min readNov 2, 2019
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Today in Poets on Medium, Laura Manipura asked about punctuation and poetry. So I thought that I would give my own quick primer.
Punctuating poetry is not the same as punctuating prose.
There are a lot of rules about how to use standard English punctuation. Most of it is…