One of the essential characteristics of poetry is the line break. It is the most prominent feature distinguishing verse from prose. Even though much narrative prose employs metaphors and is written ...

Number of literary critics expressing their views about the recent genre of 'Prose-Poem' said it marched into Urdu literature during the sixties but it is now an accepted form of poetry. Expressing ...

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 ...

“The prose poem has achieved an unprecedented level of popularity among American poets,” writes David Lehman, a poet and the series editor of the Best American Poetry series, published by Scribner. He ...

Prose poetry is a literary form that combines elements of prose and poetry to create a unique narrative voice and style. It appears as standard prose, without line breaks, but utilizes poetic devices ...

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 ...

In his first collection of verse in over a decade, he applies the lessons of his successful, self-conscious prose. The Poor Poet, a painting by Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885). Who is Ben Lerner? Readers of ...