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  2. Tory Dent - Wikipedia

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    Dent spent most of her adult life in New York City and Maine. She married writer Sean Harvey in 1999. Throughout her adult life she produced poetry, often about her struggles and experiences living with HIV. She died on December 30, 2005, in her apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan of the AIDS-associated infection PML.

  3. Free verse - Wikipedia

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    Is 5 by E. E. Cummings, an example of free verse. Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme [1] and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free verse and other forms (such as prose) is often ...

  4. List of Barnard College people - Wikipedia

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    Tory Dent (1981), poet and HIV/AIDS activist; Babette Deutsch (1917), poet, translator and critic; Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (1944), author; Barnard College professor and dean; Avni Doshi (2005), writer who was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize; Francine du Plessix Gray (1952), Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer; Hallie Ephron (1969), novelist

  5. List of poets - Wikipedia

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    Tory Dent (1958–2005 ... 1971 and 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; 2010 US Poet Laureate; Sarah Messer (born 1966), US ... (1882–1940), Japanese free verse haiku poet;

  6. Triadic-line poetry - Wikipedia

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    Triadic-line poetry or stepped line is a long line which "unfolds into three descending and indented parts". [1] Created by William Carlos Williams , it was his "solution to the problem of modern verse" [ 2 ] and later was also taken up by poets Charles Tomlinson and Thom Gunn .

  7. Oral-formulaic composition - Wikipedia

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    Magoun thought that formulaic poetry was necessarily oral in origin. That sparked a major and ongoing debate over the extent to which Old English poetry, which survives only in written form, should be seen as, in some sense, oral poetry. The oral-formulaic theory of composition has now been applied to a wide variety of languages and works.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Karyn Hascal, The Healing Place’s president and CEO, said she would never allow Suboxone in her treatment program because her 12-step curriculum is “a drug-free model. There’s kind of a conflict between drug-free and Suboxone.” For policymakers, denying addicts the best scientifically proven treatment carries no political cost.

  9. French alexandrine - Wikipedia

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    Vers libre is the source of the English term free verse, and is effectively identical in meaning. It can be seen as a radical extension of the tendencies of both vers libres (various and unpredictable line lengths) and vers libéré (weakening of strictures for caesura and rhymes, as well as experimentation with unusual line lengths).