Punctuation Or Not

[Leanne]

I would never steer someone away from learning the rules and fundamentals. That's just basic and should occur. My only contention is that I think it should not always be strictly followed thereafter.

In other words, I think the only way someone can artistically curtail conventional rules of poetry is by knowing them. If you're curtailing them out of not knowing them, then that's just incompetence.

Stick around, BigRed, you'll see that's exactly our philosophy. Learn the rules, then break them -- but ffs, learn them first. What's the point in being subversive if you do it so badly that people just think you're ignorant?