When I picked up Baitullah Quaderee’s Bangladesher Shater Dashaker Kabita, it wasn’t particularly out of scholarly curiosity. The book is, by design, a doctoral thesis—its structure conventional, its ...

The poems he has written since then have changed radically in style: He has abandoned lyricism and rhymes, writing instead with free verse to document the raw realities of war.

Verse novels are having a moment—in the publishing world and in classrooms across America. Often using free verse, creative punctuation, and in some cases blank space to tell stories with characters ...

This year's Free Verse Poetry Festival, returning for its seventh year from Oct. 18-22, is seeking to unite the arts community with a variety of events throughout the Lowcountry.

Free verse is a style of poetry that does not adhere to traditional rules of rhyme or meter. Instead, it allows for greater creative freedom, emphasizing the natural flow of language and the poet ...

Free verse is a poetic style that breaks away from traditional patterns of rhyme and meter. It lacks a fixed structure, allowing poets to experiment with rhythm, line length, and form.

Emily Wingfield will read a poem before the Free Verse Festival showing of "La Manplesa," an experimental feature film about the 1991 uprisings in Washington, D.C., told through the voices of ...

A Russian-born poet who immigrated to New York City at the age of 25, Dropkin broke away from the traditional poetic formats of her Jewish predecessors, opting for the free verse experimentation ...

Here, in list-poem format, we hear a series of cautions: “Don’t sit on the stoop, don’t play with toy guns, don’t listen to loud music.” ...

The rushing vivacious wave engulfs me underneath its surf I thrash my limbs submerged helplessly trying to reach for the waters palm and push my weight up My lips meet the surface and feel the ...