''Sepid'' poetry (''sepid'', "white") or "White Poetry" is a
free verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme 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 ...
movement of
Modern Persian poetry that departs from
Classical Persian
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoke ...
prosody and adopts "new content, viewpoint, and diction".
Ahmad Shamloo is considered the founder of the White Poetry movement,
[Anthony Appiah and Diana Ayton-Shenker, "On the Death of a Prominent Contemporary Poet", ''The Poetry of Central California''] which came to its mature form and general acceptance after
Bijan Jalali.
For the last two decades of his life,
Manouchehr Atashi was also involved in ''Sepid'' poetry.
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