From the Working Pages sneak peek

Heather Veley
3 min readAug 3, 2022

Introduction:

You know, it’s funny because I didn’t always like free verse poetry. When I was a younger writer (and a bit more up my own ass), I looked down on free verse poetry as something that only lazy people did. At the time, I was fixated on mastering rhyme and meter because that’s what the great poets of the past did. It also didn’t help that most of the free verse I saw on DeviantArt, where I…

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