skip-hop n.— «Local hip-hop—or skip-hop as it is sometimes known—is also raising the profile of other rhyming-based performance such as spoken word and poetry slamming.» —“The Good New Days” by Cassandra Wilkinson New...
flarf n. a style of poetry in which poems are formed by a collage of quasi-random, serendipitously found words and phrases; poems or a poem in the style. Editorial Note: The word history given in the site linked by the first citation is believed to...
battle rattle n. (protective) military gear worn in combat situations. Editorial Note: An identical term dating to at least 1945 and meaning “nervousness in the face of combat” or “combat fatigue” is apparently separately...
option three n.— «Since leaving Oxford, Hamilton-Paterson had continued to write poetry, and in 1974 he published Option Three (former White House jargon for “compromise”).» —“Rare bird of the islands” by Ian...