Trochaic meter feels bouncy: 8 things I learned about poetry
10 min readMar 16, 2020
This week, I learned about writing and reading poetry. (The entries are bit shorter and have less commentary than usual for this series.)
Other 8 ideas posts I’ve written:
- 8 ideas on SaaS metrics & growth — week of Mar 8
- 8 ideas on drawing & sketching — week of Mar 1
- 8 ideas for PMs building machine learning products — week of Feb 23
- Week of Feb 16
- Week of Feb 9
A quote
I requested that my students bring in to class something that had a personal meaning to them. With their objects on their desks, I gave them three prompts: first, to write a paragraph about why they brought in the item; second, to write a paragraph describing the item empirically, as a scientist might; and third, to write a paragraph in the first-person from the point-of-view of the item.
The first two were warm-ups. Above the third paragraph I told them to write “Poem.”
from “What is a Poem?” in The Atlantic
