Wednesday, March 3, 2010

12.

I'm still a little fuzzy believe it or not on what constitutes a prose poem, but from what I could figure out via google and such I believe that an example of a prose poem would be Allen Ginsberg's Howl which is a personal favorite of mine.

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/8

and a Link to the poem its self....
http://sprayberry.tripod.com/poems/howl.txt

H.

1 comment:

  1. Hey Heather, Sorry I didn't see this earlier. The prose poem is definitely a confusing genre. For our purposes, and to keep it simple, it is poetry without line breaks. Therefore "Howl," which I also love, does not qualify....

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