Food and poetry often tell stories. Whether it’s a family recipe passed down through generations or a poem that recounts a personal experience, both convey narratives that connect people to their past ...

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The cultural, emotional, and sensory aspects of the human experience are reflected by food as an effective metaphor in literature. Let’s read some free verse style poems that will describe the dishes ...

In these 14-line, free-verse poems, all with the same title, Hayes, who won the National Book Award in 2010, examines what it means to be an American, to belong and to be haunted and hunted by violent ...

One of the most moving moments from the Women’s Marches that took over the country this weekend came when 23-year-old singer Halsey delivered a free-verse poem to a New York City crowd recounting her ...

“This idea of the free verse poem as ‘chopped’ prose,” Elisa Gabbert writes in her lead essay for the poetry issue, “comes from Ezra Pound via Marjorie Perloff, who quotes Pound in her influential ...