Questions about formatting poetry or Venting

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Winding Stream Press

There is nothing even remotely creative about this post. In posting my most recent word chords poem, I discovered that these poems were not showing up with the correct formatting when I publish them. Spaces between stanzas disappeared and worse the formatting of the ‘chords.’ I put the poems on center and it was a bit better but still not how they’re ‘supposed’ to be. Any thoughts? I looked in help but didn’t see anything helpful.

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Janice DeRuiter Eskridge, M.F.A. is a poet who worked for over a decade as a poet-teacher for California Poets in the Schools. Helen Shoemaker, Ph.D. L.M.F.T. is a university professor who teaches in the areas of child development and counseling. She is also a therapist in private practice.

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2 Responses to Questions about formatting poetry or Venting

Ronald E. Shields says:

February 6, 2014 at 9:59 pm

I have never found WP to be format friendly. But I do see a variety of formats on other WP sites so there must be a way to make it work. You could try formatting the poem in Word and maybe it will transfer with a copy and paste. Have you tried Googling ‘formatting on WP’? Maybe some genius has it figured out and put up video on Youtube.

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Winding Stream Press says:

February 7, 2014 at 12:39 am

OK, I Googled. Whoa! There’s a whole world of frustrated poets out there. The solutions are complicated! It seems HTML doesn’t like anything with more than two spaces in a row. And Word has all this complicated code stuff you can’t see that goofs up formatting if you copy and paste. There is a tool in the second line-click on the kitchen sink icon–that supposedly takes out Word’s crazy stuff. So I’m about to try!

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