as in blank verse
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The piece has the pattern of blank verse.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
27 Oct. 2025 -
But Kantor wrote it in blank verse — little help for the script.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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And in the freest of free verse poems, recurring images and motifs operate like punchlines in stand-up comedy, echoing earlier jokes in a routine.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Apr. 2026
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Told in a first-person, free verse style, her struggle to overcome a family tragedy, an ecological catastrophe, and the Great Depression is harrowing yet hopeful.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2026
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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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This annual prize recognizes literary achievement and promise in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry written in the English language from anywhere in the world, and is offered as an unrestricted grant of $175,000.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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Several local organizations and businesses will be open along the route, offering live music, poetry, food pop-ups and family-friendly activities about climate change and ecology.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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