The Surrealists Toolkit - Creating Prose Poems From Everyday Madness

With Editor-In-Chief of ONLY POEMS and award winning poet Karan Kapoor

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Surrealism conjures Dali, Buñuel, Pizarnik. Prose poems conjure – for a lot of people – confusion. It’s a match made in dog heaven. The prose poem is the most unique form of poetry because it is not poetry and also not prose. Over the next few weeks you will learn the art of the prose poem and harness the power of surrealism to create tiny prose gems you can submit across the genre map (which is really a crayon-etched echo of a map, let’s be honest).

Why take this class with Karan?

Much of my poetry these days is composed as prose poems. I have cheated the publishing process and totally submitted these prose poems as creative nonfiction and flash fiction. The cheating has paid off wonderfully. I like prose poems. I’m okay with cheating. I’m weird. You’ll probably teach me more than I’ll teach you. But I can teach you how to teach me more. So, let’s go.

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Get the vibe: Lesson 1 is free for everyone.

Lesson 1 - The Prose Poem as a Box of Laughing Sunflowers

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Lesson 2 - The Prose Poem as an Exquisite Corpse

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Lesson 3 - The Prose Poem as a Recipe as an Interview as a Painting as a Hat-tip as an Odyssey

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Lesson 4 - The Prose Poem as a Fish-hook as a Forest as a Needle-tip as a Painting as Shakespeare as a Grocery-list

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Lesson 5 - The Prose Poem as a Memory of Elephants

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Lesson 6 - The Prose Poem as a Sex Toy

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

Lesson 8 - A Waterfall of Lit Mags that Want Your Prose Poems

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These lessons are available to paid subscribers for $10/mo