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  by Kerry Michael Wood

  Created on: October 27, 2008   Last Updated: April 16, 2012

  To say that free verse is not poetry is to say that Walt Whitman, the father of American free verse,

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  by Jaime Skelton

  Created on: February 06, 2008

  Poetry are words that dance along the mind, that flow along the tongue, in rhythmic cadence. It is a

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  by Brandy Ryan

  Created on: January 12, 2011   Last Updated: January 13, 2011

  
  

  This is just to say-

  I have eaten
  the plums
  that were in
  the icebox

  and which
  you were probably
  saving

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  by Miranda Pierson

  Created on: July 30, 2010   Last Updated: April 10, 2012

  Free verse really is poetry. When most people think of poetry, they think of the typical rhyme schemes

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  by W. Diane Van Zwol

  Created on: June 27, 2008

  Vers Libre: On Free Verse

  Free verse is really poetry.

  From the beginning of time, there have been those

• 6 of 29

  by aurora97

  Created on: June 20, 2009   Last Updated: June 22, 2009

  First of all, I have to say that there is only good or bad poetry. It is of less importance whether

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  by John F. Kendall

  Created on: March 13, 2009   Last Updated: March 14, 2009

  Is free verse really poetry?

  Unfortunately, it is.

  A number of years ago while muddling through graduate

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  by Richard Higgs

  Created on: January 20, 2011

  Let us leave aside the question of what constitutes poetry and accept that there is a somewhat tenuous

• 9 of 29

  by Lisa Packard

  Created on: March 04, 2009

  In the Eye of the Beholder

  
  
  
  
  
  

  I remember walking through the Milwaukee Art Museum, awed at the beauty around

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  by John Devera

  Created on: May 12, 2008

  Free verse is certainly poetry. But let's be very honest. Most free verse is someone's grocery list.

• 11 of 29

  by Jason Wallace

  Created on: June 27, 2008

  What are we but the poetry of the universe, expounding upon the world around us and the infinite within

• 12 of 29

  by Scott Wagers Jr.

  Created on: February 07, 2008

  Poetry. Poetry is not confined to a set of rules is it? Oh course not. Poetry is an art and an expression.

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  by MaryO

  Created on: June 13, 2008   Last Updated: December 11, 2011

  Free Verse is definately poetry. Although it strays from traditional forms of poetic writing, it requires

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  by Jenn Weiss

  Created on: April 14, 2008

  Being a poet myself I write a lot in free verse and it is my opinion that free verse is really poetry.

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  by Tabitha Hergest

  Created on: February 07, 2008

  What is poetry?

  If you believe poetry is merely a trochee here, an anapaest there and all in orderly

• 16 of 29

  by M. Joseph

  Created on: June 03, 2008

  I'll start off my 2 cents by referring to the man that has already been referred to in many of the other

• 17 of 29

  by Daniel Curtis

  Created on: August 14, 2008

  The work of the great poetic triumvirate of the twentieth century; Elliot, Yeats and Pound, more or

• 18 of 29

  by Norm Rourke

  Created on: January 11, 2009

  The reason most people don't like poetry is because of the obsession of poetry purists who demand adherence

• 19 of 29

  by Jayne Oliver

  Created on: February 06, 2008

  In order to debate this question, it would be appropriate to offer the definition of 'poetry', which

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  by Heather Quarry

  Created on: August 21, 2008

  Free verse has a unique poetic sound to it no matter what one believes to be true of poetry styles.