Culture, humanities & social science
American Independence in verse
By Brad Skow, the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Pentameter Press · 2025
"American Independence in verse," published by Pentameter Press, traces a story of America's origins through a collection of vignettes featuring some well-known characters, like politician and orator Patrick Henry, alongside some lesser-known but no less important ones, like royalist and former chief justice of North Carolina Martin Howard. Each is rendered in blank verse, a nursery-style rhyme, or free verse.
From Summer 2026 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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