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Prose Poem

A prose composition that, while not broken into verse lines, demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry. Read More
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  • Poem
    By Yasmine Ameli
    Nanny’s husband is dead, and her six children are growing. Every morning, she readjusts her one fake...
  • Poem
    By Yasmine Ameli
    Sa’id goes missing. Forty years later, my mama tells me his poems got into the wrong hands. It is the...
  • Poem
    By Yasmine Ameli
    In another story, my baba bozorg paints flowers. He is little. His name Amir means shah, but the shah...
  • Poem
    By Jorie Graham
    The blades like irises turning very fast to see you completely—steel-blue then red where the cut occurs...
  • Poem
    By Cameron Awkward-Rich
    I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside...
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the...
  • Poem
    He was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in...
  • Poem
    By Marosa di Giorgio
    Pasaban murciélagos, prendidos a la ropa de las vacas, las gacelas; cuando pude quité alguno. Y otros...
  • Poem
    By Marosa di Giorgio
    When I was six years old, eight years old, my grandmother decreed a garment of hare, which would ward...
  • Poem
    By Marosa di Giorgio
    Cuando tenía seis años, ocho años, la abuela dictaminó vestido de liebre, que me librase de todo mal...
  • Poem
    By Marosa di Giorgio
    The bats arrived, attached to the coats of calves, gazelles; when I could, I plucked one off. And others...
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