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A Surrealist Toolkit: Creating Beautiful Prose Poems From Everyday Madness
A surrealist's toolkit for creating beautiful prose poetry from everyday moments.
Jan 1
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Karan Kapoor
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The Prose Poem as a Box of Laughing Sunflowers
Lesson 1 - Defining surrealism & using the prose poem as the perfect medium
Aug 9, 2024
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Karan Kapoor
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The Prose Poem as an Exquisite Corpse
Lesson 2 - Prose Poetry vs Flash Fiction, Surreal vs Absurd vs Experimental vs Camp, and a few Surrealist techniques
Aug 9, 2024
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Karan Kapoor
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The Prose Poem as a Recipe as an Interview as a Painting as a Hat-tip as an Odyssey
Lesson 3 - 5/10 Different Kinds of Prose Poems To Help You Build a Collection
Aug 8, 2024
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Karan Kapoor
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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
Aug 7, 2024
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Karan Kapoor
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The Prose Poem as a Memory of Elephants
Lesson 5 - Use boredom to find beauty and write the wildest surreal flash prose
Aug 6, 2024
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Karan Kapoor
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The Prose Poem as a Sex Toy
Lesson 6 - Writing about sex and the body
Aug 5, 2024
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Karan Kapoor
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The Prose Poem as a Long Line to a Faith Rock Concert Featuring the Devil as the Opening Act
Lesson 7 - Opening Lines + Closing Lines, Common Pitfalls in Writing Surreal Prose and How to Avoid Them
Aug 3, 2024
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Karan Kapoor
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A Waterfall of Lit Mags that Want Your Prose Poems
Lesson 8 - 35 places to send your prose poetry
Aug 2, 2024
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Karan Kapoor
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