Spurning the free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited poems for ...

Three hundred and nine years ago, poet Jupiter Hammon was born on Lloyd Neck, the enslaved son of enslaved Black parents. Just this month, 150 people joined together in person and virtually to ...

Free verse is a poem with no set rhyme or rhythm. Chef is going to cook a free verse poem. Free verse poems are chef’s favourite… …that’s because, much like ...

In “The Confinement of Free Verse” (May, 1987), Mr. Brad Leithauser argues that the poet makes a “prosodic contract” with the reader and that as free verse makes no such contract it is bankrupt. I ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who ...

Alan Filreis’s Counter-Revolution of the Word is less a work of literary interpretation than a penetrating historical and sociological study. It is comparable to now-classic books like Jed Rasula’s ...