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The Music in a Line: Line Breaks, Rhythm, Rhyme & Meter

$85.00 $95.00

A live, generative workshop with Georgia Heard + Renée M. LaTulippe

$85 for the first 10 Registrants · $95 thereafter

Date: Saturday, December 5

Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm (ET) on Zoom

Have you ever moved a line break and heard the whole poem change? Or read a rhyming line aloud and stumbled where you expected it to sing?

Join Georgia Heard and Renée M. LaTulippe for two hours of listening, experimenting, and writing. In the first hour, Georgia will explore how line breaks, enjambment, stanzas, and white space can change a poem’s pace, emphasis, and feeling. You’ll try shaping lines on the page and hear what happens.

Then Renée, poet and founder of The Lyrical Language Lab, will guide you into the sounds inside a line. Through rhyme, rhythm, meter, and scansion, you’ll listen for how rhyme connects lines and how patterns of stress create rhythm and meter, then try writing a few lines of your own.

Come ready to listen, play with language, and hear what happens when the sound and meaning of a poem work together.

A live, generative workshop with Georgia Heard + Renée M. LaTulippe

$85 for the first 10 Registrants · $95 thereafter

Date: Saturday, December 5

Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm (ET) on Zoom

Have you ever moved a line break and heard the whole poem change? Or read a rhyming line aloud and stumbled where you expected it to sing?

Join Georgia Heard and Renée M. LaTulippe for two hours of listening, experimenting, and writing. In the first hour, Georgia will explore how line breaks, enjambment, stanzas, and white space can change a poem’s pace, emphasis, and feeling. You’ll try shaping lines on the page and hear what happens.

Then Renée, poet and founder of The Lyrical Language Lab, will guide you into the sounds inside a line. Through rhyme, rhythm, meter, and scansion, you’ll listen for how rhyme connects lines and how patterns of stress create rhythm and meter, then try writing a few lines of your own.

Come ready to listen, play with language, and hear what happens when the sound and meaning of a poem work together.

Cancellation Policy: Please be advised that we cannot accommodate cancellation or refund requests for The Poet’s Studio courses.

About the Hosts

Renée M. LaTulippe is the author of Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics! (Charlesbridge, 2025), the poem picture book The Crab Ballet (Abrams, 2022), and a forthcoming free verse picture book with Creative Editions, and has poems published in many anthologies including A Universe of Rainbows, If I Could Choose a Best Day, No World Too Big, Night Wishes, School People, The Poetry of US, One Minute Till Bedtime, Poems Are Teachers, ThankU: Poems of Gratitude, and A World Full of Poems. 

Renée developed and teaches the online course The Lyrical Language Lab and provides free lessons for children’s writers on her YouTube channel. She is also the co-founder of the homeschool curricula company, Storylark Road Publishing. She has a BFA in acting/directing and an MA in English Education. Originally from upstate New York, Renée lives by the sea in Italy with her husband and three children.

Georgia Heard is a poet, educator, and founder of The Poet’s Studio. She received the 2023 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, honoring her body of work for young readers. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and has taught poetry workshops at Poets House, Teachers College, Columbia University, Gothenburg University, and in schools around the world.

Her children’s poetry books include Welcome to the Wonder House, co-authored with Rebecca Kai Dotlich; My Thoughts Are Clouds: Poems for Mindfulness; and Boom! Bellow! Bleat! Animal Poems for Two or More Voices. Her forthcoming book, Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Poems About Names, will be published by Candlewick in March 2027. She is also the author of books for teachers and writers, including Awakening the Heart and Heart Maps.