as in blank verse
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But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025 -
Onto the page spilled more than ten thousand lines of the richest and most resourceful blank verse in the English language, arranged into ten books in 1667, then rearranged into twelve in 1674.—
Merve Emre,
The New Yorker,
16 Dec. 2024
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Though most of Milosz’s poetry was written in free verse, no effort has been made to force the English versions into the complicated poetic forms the poet sometimes preferred — that would have required a different sense of obligation.—
William Logan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The award-winning work, told through a mix of free verse and haiku, offers a poignant and nuanced look at a young person growing up Black in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, finding herself through the art of writing.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2024
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Slathering your emotions across the page while crossing your fingers about the versification was what bad readers expected and what bad poets did.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
17 Aug. 2022
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Auden’s career presents a sight unique in the annals of English literature: a vision of someone claiming as personal playground the entirety of English versification.—
Brad Leithauser,
WSJ,
12 Aug. 2022
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Chaining two of these machines together, Kalma was able to create analog loops of saxophone, church organ, and other instruments, layering them with poetry and found sound in his first original compositions.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
8 June 2025
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Bryant invited author Clint Waters to her shop for a reading of his science fiction and poetry, which feature LGBTQ+ themes.—
Diana Lambdin Meyer,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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