How to stop a new line from being created for each letter in a list after looping?

Question

I am trying to figure out how to fix issues regarding new lines being created for every letter in an attempt to display full words of a list in this one Python exercise.

The goal is to convert each word in the resulting list to lowercase and remove all punctuation within the text using a string.

I was able to read a file and split it into a list of individual words using the following code:

file_handle = open('romeo_juliet.txt')
words = file_handle.read()  
words.split()   

Which results in this list output:

['Romeo',
 'and',
 'Juliet',
 'Act',
 '2,',
 'Scene',
 '2',
 'SCENE',
 'II.',
 "Capulet's",
 'orchard.']

I attempted to use this resulting list to lowercase and remove punctuation of individual words and used the following code, with "puncs" being defined as a string of the punctuation to be removed; and using a for loop to split lines, lowercase words, and remove punctuation:

puncs = "-.,?!:;'[]"
def strip_puncs(s):
    return ''.join(c for c in s if c not in puncs)
for hdln in words:
    wot = hdln.split()
    for words_lower in wot:
        words_lower = words_lower.lower()
        words_lower = strip_puncs(words_lower)
        print(words_lower)     

It removes punctuation and lowercases all words, but does not separate individual words and instead creates a new line for every letter as demonstrated in a snippet:

r
o
m
e
o
a
n
d
j
u
l
i
e
t

The goal is to get an output that resembles this:

romeo
and 
juliet

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.