The Prose Poem as a Fish-hook as a Forest as a Needle-tip as a Painting as Shakespeare as a Grocery-list

Lesson 4 - 5 More Variations of Prose Poems To Help You Build a Collection

Lesson 4 of 8 from Karan Kapoor’s Surrealist's Toolkit: Creating Beautiful Prose Poems from Everyday Madness.

The Bait-and-Switch Prose Poem

As the title suggests, this form sets up an expectation and then subverts it, leading the reader in one direction before surprising them with an unexpected twist.

Here’s one of the finest, deceptively complex prose p…