The Prose Poetry Workshop
A surrealist toolkit: creating beautiful prose poems from everyday madness
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.
In this workshop 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).
Workshop Takeaways
Define surrealism and explore how the prose poem serves as the perfect medium.
Understand the differences between prose poetry and flash fiction, and explore surreal, absurd, experimental, and camp styles.
Discover 10 types of prose poems to inspire your writing.
Use boredom to uncover beauty and create wild, surreal flash prose.
Write about sex and the body using prose poetry.
Craft strong opening and closing lines while avoiding common pitfalls in surreal prose.
Find 35 places to submit your prose poetry.
About The Instructor
Karan Kapoor is the Editor in Chief of ONLY POEMS. Their recent work appears in Best New Poets (2024). A finalist for the Felix Pollak Prize & Charles B. Wheeler Prize book prizes and Diode, Tusculum Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review chapbook prizes, their poems have appeared in Best New Poets, AGNI, Shenandoah, Colorado Review, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, and elsewhere, fiction in JOYLAND and the other side of hope, and translations in The Offing and The Los Angeles Review. They’re currently on the editorial board of Alice James Books.
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