Free verse

The writer was no poet.

Even as a writer of vers libre, his effort left something to be desired.

She put away the book, returned to her desk, and sat for half an hour, her chin in her hands, her eyes fixed vacantly on the opposite wall.

For the moment, Peter Dawlish was off her hands, and though he came back again and again to her thoughts, it was not in the role of a responsibility.

She's known as both the practitioner and the sort of foremost theorist of poetry.

what's called a in Arabic, which can translate as free verse, but which is really not a free verse.

It's also sometimes called tefaila poetry, because what she did was isolate the foot as the metrical basis of the poem.

And to say, to put, you know, Arabic meter usually has a fixed number of feet spanning across two hemistics, like across a caesura in the middle of the line.

I'll just step it back and

say she's known for innovating with Arabic poetic form, along with her contemporary, another Iraqi, Badr Shaker Asayeb.

And there are debates about who wrote the first technical free verse poem.

I think it was Sayeb, but regardless of who did it first, this form, this way of writing poetry is definitely more associated with her because she also was a very prolific critic who wrote about how you should do this form and even more about how you should not and about what it meant if you messed up her definition.

It's called Folk Around and a brand new two hours of folk music on Wednesday.

If you thought because Free Verse was on Wednesdays that we didn't have any more space in our programming for more folk music, you're wrong.

I'm sorry.

Folk around 12 to 2 each and every Wednesday going forward.