In doing so, he radically reinvented the idea of love, even as he pioneered two major experimental forms of poetry, the prose poem and free verse (vers libre). By the time he was nineteen ...

Free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular ... There are rhyming words at the end of lines one, two and five and lines three and four should also rhyme.

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me ...