Over the last half-century, British poets including Philip Larkin and Andrew Motion have driven a "lawnmower poetry microgenre," using the machine to explore childhood, masculinity, violence, ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

The collection, which also contains 13 songs, also focus on specific moments in history, including the ongoing Russian ...

BRAINERD — Submissions are now open for a poetry contest sponsored by the Lake Country Journal, Central Lakes College Verse ...

We didn’t want a poem that was too long, and we thought something that rhymed would be more fun — and easier — to memorize than a cascade of free verse. Millay, who was born in Maine in 1892 ...

Free Verse offers the best chance to find innovative, new, and up-and-coming poetry all in one place. Expect limited editions, poem-objects, fine letter-press printing, radical zines, artists’ ...

Colgate’s poems attend, delightfully and exceptionally ... at least.” Balanced free verse — with echoes, at times, of Yusef Komunyakaa — prevails, with several ghazals thrown in: The ...

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SP: Yes — the American poet Walt Whitman. He self-published this volume of poetry back in 1855. Walt Whitman is known as the “father of free verse.” So you could trace both Allen Ginsberg and Amanda ...