free verse
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Renshi is a kind of Japanese collaborative poetry that is more open-ended free verse than older forms like “renku.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2022
Its 12 poems were written in free verse, meaning they didn’t rhyme.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
An astonishing statement, this, given that Pound is himself arguably the greatest free verse poet in the language!
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022
The essay encourages an oddly suspicious, even paranoid reading of most free verse as phony poetry, as prose in costume.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022
“Looks kind of like free verse, doesn’t it?”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
