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“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 Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).” quote by Matthea Harvey — Download Open image

“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 Room for that reason (contributors have to write about their ideas on the prose poem/flash fiction).”

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

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Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

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