Lesson 7 - The Prose Poem as a Long Line to a Faith Rock Concert Featuring the Devil as the Opening Act

Opening Lines + Closing Lines, Common Pitfalls in Writing Surreal Prose and How to Avoid Them

Mariam Chagelishvili

Lesson 7 of 8 from Karan Kapoor’s Surrealist's Toolkit: Creating Beautiful Prose Poems from Everyday Madness

Hello, friends! Welcome to our penultimate lesson. We've come a long way since our first foray into the world of surreal prose poetry. Have you learned to tap into your unconscious already?

In your poems, you’re clearly blending reality with dreams, creating some really fantastic and surprising images. Having practiced salsa with prose poems these last few lessons, I hope it’s safe to assume that you’ve a couple of drafts ready for fine-tuning.

Today, we’ll focus on crafting killer openings and closings, avoiding common pitfalls, and polishing our surreal gems to a brilliant shine to ensure your surreal verses are not just wild flights of fancy, but polished coherent poems that will captivate readers and editors alike.

Use Logic to Make Your Insane Prose Poems Make Sense