A list of prose poems to explore.
Alejandra Pizarnik, “Sex, Night” (trans. by P. Ferrari & Forrest Gander) ^
Alexander Long, “Meditation on a Suicide”
Alina Stefanescu, “Hush Hush Hush” and “Two Faces”
Amaris Feland Ketcham, “How We Echo”
Amelia Martens, “A Robin Pulls a Thread”
Amorak Huey, “Prayer for What I Do Not Want”
Ann Waldman, “Stereo”
Anne Carson, “Short Talks” ^
Aria Aber, “Lass/Let”
Arthur Rimbaud, “First Evening” (translated by Kline)
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, “Past Immaculate”
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, “Enchanted Egg, #2”
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, “He Said Discipline Is the Highest Form of Love”
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, “Afterlife”
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, “The One with the Darkest Hair”
Ben Miller, “The Opposite of That Famous Story”
Bob Hicok, “Prose Poem Essay on the Prose Poem”
Brenda Hillman, “Childhood” - an essay in rhyme
Cameron Awkward-Rich, “Meditations in an Emergency”
Campbell McGrath, “The Prose Poem”
Carol Dorf, “On the Way Out of Memory Palace”
Carol Guess
Cecilia Woloch, “Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea”
Charles Rafferty, “The Problem with Sappho” ^
Charles Simic, “Heroic Moment”
Christopher Kennedy, “Personality Quiz”
Christopher Kennedy, “The Genius”
Claudia Rankine, 2 poems from Citizen, I ^
Czeslaw Milosz, “Decency”
Daniel Poppick, “The Apple’s Floor”
Daniel Romo, “Attention”
Danielle Mitchell, “Year of the Dig”
David Daniel, “Paint”
David Daniel, “Hotel”
David Ignatow, “Forever”
David Ignatow, “Information”
David Keplinger
David Shumate, 3 prose poems
Deborah Digges, “Fence of Sticks”
Denise Duhamel, “Napping on the Afternoon of My 39th Birthday”
Denise Duhamel, “Infiltration”
Denise Duhamel, “The Drag Queen Inside Me” ^
Denise Duhamel, “Permanence”
Diane Raptosh, “Husband”
Dina Relles, “In A Sunday Kitchen”
Doug Martin, “Morning Sickness”
Emma Bolden, “Describe the Situation in Specific Detail”
Essy Stone, “Among the Prophets”
Fanny Howe, “Second Childhood”
Frank O'Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency”
Frank O’Hara, “The Eyelid Has Its Storms” ^
Gabriel Gudding, “A Defense of Poetry” ^
Gary Young, “Four Poems”
Geoffrey Dyer, “Tuesday, April 11, 2006”
Geoffrey Dyer, “Wednesday, January 26, 2006”
Gian Lombardo, “On the Mark”
Gian Lombardo, “Three Wishes”
Howie Good, “Door to the River”
James Tate, “All Over the Lot”
James Tate, “Goodtime Jesus” ^
James Wright, “Honey”
Jane Harrington, “Ossein Pith”
Jayne Anne Phillips, “Happy”
Jean Follain, “Prose Poem” (translated by William Matthews and Mary Feeney)
Jennifer Givhan, “Domestic” ^
Jennifer Martinelli, “The Devil Tides”
John Ashbery, “The Young Son” ^
Kellie Wells, “Desertion”
Laird Hunt, “Michiko and Akiko”
Lance Larsen, “32 Views from the Hammock” - list poem
Lawrence Goeckel, “The Last Days Before the Age of Industry”
Layli Long Solider, “Introduction” - docupoetics
Layli Long Solider, excerpt from “Whereas”
Lucy Ives, Three paragraphs from The Nineties
Mark Strand, “Dream Testicles, Vanished Vaginas”
Mark Vinz, “Letter from the Cabin”
Mark Yakich, “The Ordinary Sun”
Mark Yakich, “The Mountain”
Marvin Bell, “About the Dead Man, Ashes and Dust”
Matthew Rohrer, “Disquistion on Trees”
Maxine Chernoff, “The Sound” ^
Maxine Chernoff, “Simple Gifts”
Maxine Chernoff, “Subtraction”
Mary Ruefle, “On Twilight” ^
Metta Sama, “Outlaw”
Mia Ayumi Mamalhotra, “On the street where a certain democratic leader lives…” ^
Michael Benedikt, “Three Sensualities”
Naomi Shihab Nye, “Hammer and Nail”
Nathan Parker, “Choice Pines”
Nicole Sealey, “Even the Gods”
Nin Andrews, “Adolescence”
Nin Andrews, “The Magic of Forgetting”
Nin Andrews, “How to Deal with Rejection”
Nin Andrews, “1967”
Peter Davis, “Poem Addressing Boys, Age 5”
Peter Davis, “Poem Addressing People Who Are Tired, Hungry, or Horny”
Randall Horton, “After Ruin”
Ray Gonzales, “Who Were You?”
Ray Gonzales, “I Saw” -a list of objects
Rob Carney, “Movie Review”
Robert Haas, “My Mother’s Nipples”
Robert Hill Long, “Doing Hatha Yoga”
Robert Lopez, “Man on Bus with Blindsters”
Ron Silliman, “Final For”
Rosmarie Waldrop, “The Material World”
Russell Edson, “Let Us Consider” ^
Russell Edson, “A Love Letter”
Sean Thomas Daugherty, “In the Light of One Lamp”
Sean Thomas Daugherty, “Two Variations on a Paisley”
Sean Thomas Daugherty, “Untitled” ^
Sho Spaeth, “Moods—Yoel Hoffmann”
Steve Berg, “Shaving”
Stuart Dybek, “Alphabet Soup”
T. S. Eliot, “Hysteria”
Terrance Hayes, “A Land Governed by Unkindness Reaps No Kindness”
The Cyborg Jillian Weisse, “My Friend Says I Should Be Thinking about “Masked Intimacy” When I Think about Leila Olive”
Tomas Transtromer
Yoel Hoffmann, “9”
Yoel Hoffmann, from Curriculum Vitae
Zach Savich, “Melon City”
Zach Savich, “Chestnut City”
Zach Savich, “Sheet City”
Zachary Schomburg, “The Fire Cycle” ^
Zbigniew Herbert, “The Wall” ^
And some books. Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press) - Renee Gladman, Calamities (Wave Books) - David Shumate, High Water Mark (University of Pittsburgh Press) - Michael Benedikt, The Prose Poem: An International Anthology - Russell Edson, The Reason Why the Closet Man Is Never Sad (1972) - Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations - Claudia Rankine, Citizen - Czeslaw Milosz, Roadside Dog - Frank O'Hara, Meditations in An Emergency (Grove Atlantic, 1957) - Mark Strand, The Monument (denied 1978 Pultizer Prize) - Top 10 prose poetry books according to Daniel Hales