free verse
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One of the first songs that got written for this record was “Devil You Know,” which was like an experiment where I wrote this poem in free verse.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 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
It spans 22 panels, down which Cendrars’s free verse runs in 30 different typefaces.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
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
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
