title: The Gift of Form: A Pocket Guide to Formal Poetry
author:  John Brantingham 
description: John Brantingham is the author of Mann of War. His other books include East of Los Angeles and Let Us All Pray Now to Our Own Strange Gods. His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines in England and the United States and on Garrison Keillors Writers Almanac. He teaches English at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut where he lives with his wife Annie.
zlib_text: The poetry Package, v2.1
  Donald P. Goodman III
  November 9, 2019
  Abstract
  The poetry package provides some macros and general doodads for type-
  setting poetry. There is, of course, already the excellent verse package, and
  the poetrytex package provides some extra functionality on top of it. But
  poetry provides much of the same functionality in a bit of a diﬀerent way,
  and with a few additional abilities, such as facilities for a list of poems, an
  index of ﬁrst lines, and some structural commands.
  Contents
  1
  Introduction
  2
  2
  Typesetting Verse
  2
  2.1
  Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  2
  2.2
  Customizing Spacing and Indentation
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  4
  2.3
  Customizing Line Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  7
  2.3.1
  Basics of Line Numbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  7
  2.3.2
  Styling Line Numbers
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  E
  3
  Document Structure
  10
  3.1
  Other Counters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 