Booklist #4

Byktlandon

It was prose poem month for packet #4:

The prose poem kind of mystifies me. I thought I’d have a better understanding of what it does and how it works as a result of reading so many and writing about one of Simic’s, but I don’t. I wrote two of my own this month, just to try something new, and they were both pretty terrible. All the decisions I made about htem felt arbitrary.

I imagine this is how writers of formal verse felt when free verse showed up…

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