Poetry is bringing the Charleston community together during the coronavirus crisis. On April 16, Charleston Scene published an issue of poems written about (or because of) the coronavirus. The issue, ...

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 ...

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 poems that will describe the dishes from ...