Expansive Poetry is a movement in
United States
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poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ...
that began in the 1980s. It is an umbrella term coined by Wade Newman for the movements of
New Formalism and
New Narrative
New Narrative is a movement and theory of experimental writing launched in San Francisco in the late 1970s by Robert Glück and Bruce Boone. New Narrative strove to represent subjective experience honestly without pretense that a text can be abso ...
, and the term is controversial even among many of the writers it purports to describe. Although more New Formalism and New Narrative poets have gained prominence in recent years, as evidenced by the number of books and anthologies they have published and the rapid expansion of the
West Chester University Poetry Conference, the term "Expansive Poetry" is increasingly rarely used.
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New Formalism
External links
Essayby
Dick Allen
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EXPANSIVE MOMENT Introduction to New Expansive Poetry
Expansive Poetry & Music Online In Defense of Meter by Annie Finch
Poetry movements
American literary movements
20th-century American literature
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