Prose Poetry for the Non-Conformist

The only real rule with prose poetry is don’t put the reader to sleep.

Flash fiction, microfiction, fragment, drabble, hint fiction: all of these short prose forms are in essence “rabble-rousers”. This is why I love them. They are an uprising against the norm.

Similarly, I think of prose poems as rule-breakers, and to picture prose poems as stubborn-natured non-conformists— resistant toward any amorphous attempt to define them.