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free verse

[free vurs] / ˈfri ˈvɜrs /
NOUN
unrhymed verse
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Tanikawa is among Japan’s most famous modern poets, and a master of free verse on the everyday.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022

This idea of the free verse poem as “chopped” prose comes from Ezra Pound via Marjorie Perloff, who quotes Pound in her influential essay “The Linear Fallacy,” published in 1981.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

The essay encourages an oddly suspicious, even paranoid reading of most free verse as phony poetry, as prose in costume.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022

Her riddles interleave what reads like a sociological thesis told in free verse.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

“Looks kind of like free verse, doesn’t it?”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt