free verses

plural of free verse

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Noun
  • New and experienced poets can gather to read and share their poems.
    La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The real bombshell was a birthday scrapbook that Maxwell put together for Epstein’s 50th birthday, full of doodles, poems, photos, and letters from people in his life.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The title track opens the affair by lurching and creeping forward for ten minutes with odd, off-putting lyrics.
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The lyrics reference the anthem of the antifascist Italian resistance during World War II.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So, now going to the club with records playing, playing for kids that were not alive when some of these songs came out and watching a really great young DJ like Cosmo play this music from the same era with her own slant on it.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Henry decided to pursue music instead of film, with his songs appearing on the soundtracks of his mom’s movies, including Julie and Julia and Ricki and the Flash.
    Francesca Gariano, People.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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