Sepid Persian Poetry

{{Short description|Free verse movement in Persian poetry}}

Sepid poetry (sepid, "white") or "White Poetry" is a free verse movement of Modern Persian poetry that departs from Classical Persian prosody and adopts "new content, viewpoint, and diction".Gabrielle van den Berg, "Perceptions of Poetry. Some Examples of Late 20th Century Tajik Poetry," Oriente Moderno 22 (83).1 (2003), p. 42. Ahmad Shamloo is considered the founder of the White Poetry movement,Anthony Appiah and Diana Ayton-Shenker, "On the Death of a Prominent Contemporary Poet", The Poetry of Central California{{cite web |url=http://www.solopublications.com/jur00lr.htm |title=Journal Page jur00lr |accessdate=2010-08-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129164809/http://solopublications.com/jur00lr.htm |archivedate=2010-11-29 }} which came to its mature form and general acceptance after Bijan Jalali.

For the last two decades of his life, Manouchehr Atashi was also involved in Sepid poetry.