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 ...

The second Free Verse Poetry Festival, curated by Charleston’s poet laureate Marcus Amaker, runs Oct. 17-24 at several venues. The festival, which receives support from the city of Charleston, is the ...

Aja Monet recognized the shifts that were about to come during quarantine early in April. Monet, this year’s Free Verse: Charleston Poetry Festival headliner, launched her own Facebook Live virtual ...

What weeping face is that looking from the window? Why does it stream those sorrowful tears? Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free ...

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 ...

Google continues to inch forward in its quest to make it even harder for the Poet Laureate to continue to ply their trade. On Monday, the company announced a new AI project called Verse by Verse. You ...

Poetry and food unite in a sensory symphony, blending words and flavors to evoke emotions, memories, and culture. Poems describe dishes with vivid imagery, inviting readers to savor culinary journeys.