A form of performance poetry of West Indian origin, accompanied by music and often of a political nature.

(poetry, jazz) A form of poetry of the 1920s employing jazz-like rhythm or a feeling of improvisation.

Poetry created by taking words or phrases from other sources and making changes in spacing or line breaks, or adding or deleting text to impart new meaning.

visual poems generally

shape poems generally

concrete poems generally

Lengthy narrative poetry typically concerned with the interactions of extraordinary people with the gods or with supernatural forces

An artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values.

A modern genre of spoken poetry, performed at informal events called poetry slams before an active audience.