Playing with Poetry: Having Fun with Meter & Rhyme

The use of meter and rhyme is unique to poetry; they are two of its most powerful tools. If prose is a form of carpentry, then poetry can be called joinery: no nails, no glue, words held together by sonic forces which can appear magical until you master them—or at least play with them—yourself.

Join Kate Adams to play some games with lines, stanzas, quatrains experimenting with the building blocks of formal poetry. You will leave with your own stanza in hand, and a new appreciation of the rhythms of words.

Born and reared in San Francisco, in a Victorian mansion her father liked to call Mad Manor, Kate Adams has been writing since the age of twelve, when her first short story came to her, filling page after page of a very surprised notebook. Since then, she has maintained a daily writing practice, manifested mostly in sonnet forms. A language lover, she currently has fun teaching Spanish at a private school in San Mateo.

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