free verse
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During the session, participants were prompted to describe vivid paintings and photographs through spoken word; each of my peers shared intimate writing samples that took place in free verse, rap and song.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 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
As for that free verse: Here Woods finds success.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2022
Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021
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
