Tag: prose poem
miCRo: “The Visible Woman” by Alexandra Teague
Clear. Nuclear. Like the Visible Woman in her plexiglass-clear skin once lied to me I wouldn’t grow to be. One button for her heart to light up red. One for the nervy, branching rivers in her head.
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miCRo: “The Landscape Painter” by Matthew Thorburn
An ekphrastic prose poem that makes the artifact embodied through a narrative.
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miCRo: “Fascism” by Mark Strohschein
A starkly titled prose poem about a figurative ocean of blackness.
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Special Feature: “Eli Plays Along” by Rob Macaisa Colgate
A poem that brings together a spoken monologue, an enactment of the kinds of listening that can happen, and incredible wordplay.
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miCRo: “The Violet Hour” by Radian Hong
This prose poem captures a modern relationship hollow from within, echoing T. S. Eliot.
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miCRo: “Yonder” by Steve Castro, Christopher Citro, and Dustin Pearson
Steve Castro (top), Christopher Citro (bottom left), and Dustin Pearson (bottom right) Assistant...
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“Haibun” by Malik Thompson
A carpet of moss exhales inside an abandoned temple. A lone figure scrapes grime from a row of...
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miCRo: “Devotee” by Shlagha Borah
A prose poem with the juxtaposition of holy sites and vile acts
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miCRo: “Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story)” by Amorak Huey
A prose poem with nearly breathless syntax and a subtle build of rhetoric.
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Three poems from Jose Hernandez Diaz
The Coyote Who Was Once a Dragon A rugged coyote wandered close by the oceanside communities....
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miCRo: “Black Snow” by Andrea Jurjević
In this evocative prose poem, time and distance are measured in objects, observations, and daily routine.
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miCRo: “On Saturn It Rains Diamonds” by Christine Kwon
This prose poem name-drops brands in a way that seems to extol consumer spending—until a final turn.
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