free verse
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It spans 22 panels, down which Cendrars’s free verse runs in 30 different typefaces.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
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
When raw veggies were served I have often observed That the crudites flew in free verse.
From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022
But free verse is a form of poetry without rules or expectations around meter, rhythm and rhyme, and the Southern California resident Brenda Woods’s “When Winter Robeson Came” is neither intimidating nor too self-serious.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 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
