In this workshop, we’ll explore the prose poem as a kind of contradiction: writing that appears, at first glance, to be straightforward prose but, on closer inspection, moves according to the associative logic of poetry. We’ll look at how poets bring far-flung distances into contact and use transitions and phrasing to undercut both the writer’s and the reader’s expectations. Beginning with five completely unrelated sentences, participants will find ways to connect what seems unrelated, building a new world within the old one. Along the way, we’ll pay particular attention to sentence variation…
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