free verse

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Singsong rhyme and meter are out; free verse and wistfulness are in.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

But I tried writing this free verse thing, and I really liked it and wanted to write more things like that.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Short chapters presented in free verse make this an easy book to read, though it’s the most sober of the three under review, thanks to the more realistic career of its protagonist.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Tanikawa is among Japan’s most famous modern poets, and a master of free verse on the everyday.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022

Feeling for the first time that I could speak to listening ears, I wrote a wild, crude poem in free verse, coining images of black hands playing, working, holding bayonets, stiffening finally in death ...

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright