Poetry and community go hand-in-hand. Sometimes lacking a defined form but always full of heart, they create a space for discussing, relating, exploring, expressing, healing. This year's Free Verse ...

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 ...

The Free Verse Festival, organized by Charleston poet laureate Marcus Amaker in 2016 at the start of his tenure, will take place Oct. 12-16 with a focus on five events.

Free Verse leaders said the workshops aim to give kids the chance to express themselves in fun, low-pressure settings. They don't approach kids with rigid lesson plans, and every project offered to ...