contemporary poetry
Today's literary verse
Contemporary poetry is verse written in the present era, roughly from the mid-20th century onward.
The term implies engagement with current concerns, forms, and idioms rather than traditional structures.
She teaches contemporary poetry at the university.
What counts as contemporary shifts with time—poetry from the 1960s was once contemporary but now occupies an earlier generation.
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
- line breaksText row separations
- identityWho someone is
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- enjambmentUnpaused verse continuation
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Formal ancient literary works
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Poetry with meter, rhyme
rhyming verse · classical prosody · rhymed verse · sonnets · iambic pentameter
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Unversified language
contemporary fiction · narrative prose · genre fiction · essay · nonfiction
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