Poem: Below – Free Verse Poetry. The rushing vivacious wave engulfs me underneath its surf I thrash my limbs submerged helplessly trying to reach for the waters palm and push my weight up My lips meet ...

It can be a haiku, free verse or a rhyming poem, it doesn't matter – but please cap your poems at 10 lines. ( Click here to read examples of ekphrastic poems – and see the paintings that ...

This year's Free Verse Poetry Festival, returning for its seventh year from Oct. 18-22, is seeking to unite the arts community with a variety of events throughout the Lowcountry.

When I first heard a poet would read at Obama’s inauguration, I was driving through Oakland, Calif., kid in the back seat, on my way to a cafe with Wi-Fi and a jungle gym. I had a poem to e-mail ...

Today, poets have the licence to write in free and blank verse. There’s also a welcome resurgence of poets using formal structures (rhymes, couplets, sonnets) but in casual, everyday language.

What Am I, Chopped Prose? To the Editor: “This idea of the free verse poem as ‘chopped’ prose,” Elisa Gabbert writes in her lead essay for the poetry issue, “comes from Ezra Pound via ...

Due to the high quality and welcoming atmosphere of Thalaiva, it is a well-known restaurant in Surat. There are many different types of cuisine accessible.

On his 150th birthday, remembering the poet who compared free verse to ‘playing tennis with the net down.’ Turns out, he taught that way, too. A reporter once asked Robert Frost what event ...