Answers Quote by Matthea Harvey

Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is…

— Ken Tucker

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the…

— Pattiann Rogers

“…description is deadly to a prose poem.”

— Russell Edson

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The…

— Denise Duhamel

I think of poetry as a very inclusive term. Still, it's interesting that people want to make the distinction. I love the magazine Double…

— Matthea Harvey

When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I don't think…

— Matthea Harvey

“The prose poem for me becomes a kind of chamber with no way out… a kind of hunt, because what is hunt but a…

— Sabrina Orah Mark

“I never liked the term “experimental writing,” but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still don’t know…

— Russell Edson

Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose…

— Campbell McGrath

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of…

— Brian Aldiss

“Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so. from the prose poem INNOCENCE”

— Jay Woodman

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

— Matthea Harvey