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A man on stage beat on a drum while reciting free-verse poetry lines such as "Revolution is the solution," and "then we can all sit down and have a lollipop."
Democrats' Populist Puzzle Jonathan Weisman 2011
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My comment is neither stream nor free-verse and is most assuredly not punky as I am rather frightened by mohawks and piercings.
Speculative Poetry published in Niteblade | THE FANTASIST 2009
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In the first place he is a free-verse poet, and in the second -- But the first will cover everything, so I will not trouble to elaborate.
Archive 2010-01-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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In the first place he is a free-verse poet, and in the second -- But the first will cover everything, so I will not trouble to elaborate.
"A Leak in the Fountain of Youth" by Amelia Reynolds Long, part 1 Johnny Pez 2010
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In the fifties and sixties, he sold souvenirs during the day and studied poetry (everything from classical Arabic to contemporary American free-verse) at night.
taha muhammad ali | three poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, this book focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives.
National Book Festival author schedule: Teens & Children 2010
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It is, to mix several metaphors, a free-verse fugue in multiple acts, a dance amid the clinking of forks, and unlike anything most journalists experience on regular duty.
A conversation with John Adams, composer and so much else 2010
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I am a rhyming-poet and only occasionally wtite in blank or free-verse.
Celluloid Rehab Eeleen Lee 2010
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This met with a mixed response from the critics, many of whom saw in it a capitulation to free-verse modernism.
Archive 2009-11-01 David McDuff 2009
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This met with a mixed response from the critics, many of whom saw in it a capitulation to free-verse modernism.
Karin Boye - a biographical profile - 7 David McDuff 2009
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