09-13-2013, 11:07 PM
When it comes back to the prose poem problem, somebody says: I want to write something in prose. I don't want to make a short story or an essay or a friendly letter. But I'll make a poem, by God, and it'll be in prose. It's almost as simple as that. Many books of prose poems have been published. I've read a few, and I like them enough to go ahead and call them prose poems too. You can refuse to acknowledge their existence; but I think they're worth reading, and being considered within their own standards.