Thanks, Roger. Is this available on-line or only in print?
Audrey
> Audrey,
> There is an article in American Poetry Review by David Lehman "The Prose
> Poem: An Alternative to Verse" . The March/April 2003 edition.
> You may find it of interest.
>
> Roger
>
>
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> From: "Audrey Friedman" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 10:54 PM
> Subject: prose poetry
>
>
> > Last week I attended a reading of prose poetry, and have been pondering
> ever
> > since what a prose poem really is. I've read Stephen Berg's "The Coat,"
> > what my MFA advisor considers a fine example of the genre. I wonder
what
> > made Berg, or any prose poet, choose the form for a piece. I've taken
> some
> > of my previous work, the more narrative pieces (I do know that prose
poems
> > do not necessarily need to be narrative), and removed the line breaks,
> > adjusted the punctuation. They're OK but I don't see anything gained.
> > Actually, I mourn some of my more successful line breaks now gone. I'm
> > assuming there is much I don't understand about this genre. The poet,
> Peter
> > Johnson, a McLaughlin Award winner this year, is a professor at
Providence
> > College. A fine reading concluded, and Johnson answered some audience
> > questions. "If you've been writing traditional, lined verse (I might be
> > paraphrasing here), you probably won't be successful in writing good
prose
> > poems." I'm confounded. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. What
is
> a
> > prose poem, other than a poem with no line formatting?
> > Audrey
> >
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