An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form’s astonishing range You might think of a prose poem as a bastardised form – neither one thing nor ...

In part one of our series on prose poems, The Irresistible Rise of Prose Poetry, our new Poetry Correspondent Mark Connors begins with The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry. On the back cover ...

It is believed, traditionally, that to qualify as poetry any writing must have three traits it is versified, it has something creative and worthwhile to say and it is intentional. The first condition ...

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

Book One was my very first work. I was a fiction writer and had graduated some years ago with an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. I did not yet see myself as a poet. After attempts at ...

. . . is open/ed, stretched, indeterminate – no bearings. Sink-hole, bore-hole, malefaction. Imbibe, insinuate. Empty, save for the barman – a figment, a fixture ...

UNICEF has declared March 21 of every year as World Poetry Day, with a chosen theme. It is devoted to supporting linguistic diversity using poetic expression. In 2022, the theme was ‘environment’.

Now open for prose poems of no more than 450 words. Entries may be on any theme, but should be the author’s own work and written in English. There is no limit on number of submissions. Top 10 ...