A favorite of the French symbolists and contemporary poets alike, the prose poem is an enigmatic, hybrid creature that wields the techniques of poetry but forgoes its line breaks. The poet James Tate went so far as to suggest that its paragraphs could trick the reader “into glimpsing a little sliver of eternity.”
This session will include a craft discussion on/close reading of prose poems, as well as writing exercises that will help us generate and share our own prose poems. We will study prose poems by Natalie Diaz, José Olivarez, Aracelis Girmay, Robin Coste Lewis, and others.
Class takes place online on January 11 from 3-5 pm.
