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 ...

What makes a prose poem? How would you go about writing one? How do you tell a successful prose poem from a mere chunk of prose? Learn all about this paradoxical verse form and write some prose poems ...

There is no single perfect way to write about the here and now, but writers should always be trying to find it. It’s the major question facing poets, authors and journalists: how can we capture things ...