“Open Form in American Poetry” is available from University of Maine Press. Off Radar takes note of poetry and books with Maine connections the first and third Fridays of each month.

Cage said the May 13 open studio Hours featured an activity and art form called blackout poetry, in which the artist selects words from a page to form a poem and colors the canvass in black ...

Olson and Creeley also were associated with Duncan through the revolutionary Black Mountain College, where they all experimented with open form poetry or "open field composition." These poets, along ...

But, local poet Mark D. Bennion says poems do not have to rhyme, and often, his own poetry does not. "There's closed form poetry and open form poetry or free verse," Bennion explained.