Impulse Quote by Matthea Harvey

“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no…

— David L. Ulin

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line…

— Denise Duhamel

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them.…

— Matthea Harvey

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't…

— Matthea Harvey

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

— Cate Marvin

“Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it,…

— Jay Woodman

Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of image and…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.

— Pattiann Rogers

“If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone,…

— Anonymous

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare