John Agard’s Checking Out Me History is an example of an open form poem but one that still has a shape and structure. It is divided into stanzas - poetic paragraphs - and includes some rhyme and ...

Sonia Sanchez is one of the most powerful voices in American poetry, a literary giant whose work spans decades of activism, ...

The shape of the poem is simple. It’s written as one verse – this could suggest the single focus of the speaker – he is consumed by love. It could also imply the poverty noted towards the ...