The restrictions of rhyming have long frustrated poetry students. So learning how to write free verse poetry was a revelation for third-graders at Freeman's Mill Elementary School. Suddenly there was ...

Poet Sue Ellen Thompson will lead a workshop that examines approaches to writing free verse at 1 p.m. May 16 at the Ellicott City Senior Center, 9401 Frederick Road, Ellicott City. Those who attend ...

In “The Confinement of Free Verse” (May, 1987), Mr. Brad Leithauser argues that the poet makes a “prosodic contract” with the reader and that as free verse makes no such contract it is bankrupt. I ...

I HAVE seen it stated that, when Tennyson’s Princess was published in the United States, two generations ago, it was the best-selling book in the country, and that Patmore’s The Angel in the House, ...