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 ...

A poetry festival that is celebrating its seventh year in Charleston will be hosted this year by mostly women of color. The Free Verse Festival, organized by Charleston poet laureate Marcus Amaker in ...

If free verse is to release the poetry that is in daily speech, it may well follow that our prose, too, will feel a quickening breath of beauty; and a glint of the glory from the wings of song will ...

Free Verse leaders said the workshops aim to give kids the chance to express themselves in fun, low-pressure settings. They don't approach kids with rigid lesson plans, and every project offered to ...