Prose Poetry

Some Failed Nocturnes for Sylvia Plath

Sep 12, 2016

Hybrid Poetry by Marie Chambers

Verbs begin to spiral from her mouth and coil outward into the sky.

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Marion Deutsche Cohen: Poem

May 23, 2016

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Bruce is reading Wuthering Heights, I’m curling up with Numerical Semigroups.

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Nicole Callihan: Prose Poem

Apr 15, 2015

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This is not a story in your mind. You were really that girl. She was already you.

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Autumn Stephens: Prose Poems

Feb 04, 2015

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Oh, but she did not love Bees. She felt no desire for honey.

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Hadestown

Oct 27, 2014

Prose Poem Excerpt by Kim Triedman

There are no signposts here; I can no longer remember the names of my children.

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Iris Jamahl Dunkle: Prose Poem

Feb 20, 2013

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Days like this I feel like a Russian doll: a body carved inside a body.

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Carol Dorf: Prose Poem

Feb 13, 2013

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The daughter’s memory is a cove, where unexpected fragments of a school play wash up against a burnt tabletop.

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Wendy Brown-Báez: Prose Poem

Feb 06, 2013

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My merman came to shore for a quick kiss and a breath of fresh air, swam back to his ocean lair, murky depths, seaweed tangled in his hair.

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Jerry McGuire: Two Prose Poems

Jan 30, 2013

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Everything grows in its own way, which can’t be justified or condemned. I danced while I could, then I couldn’t...

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Randall Horton: Two Prose Poems

Jan 23, 2013

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Gulls, redacted from flight, from piping new trajectories (for a second), are close by, unseen—humanity’s cue: respect the quite before the storm.

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