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Some of the essays in Cellophane Bricks are easy to follow, though just as many of the pieces read like impressionistic prose poems or refracted flights of fancy that connect to their subject matter in obscure ways.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Whatever the case, the letter by Melania that was made public in the wake of the Pennsylvania shooting was nothing less than a prose poem.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
So went the voice-over at the Undercover show: a prose poem written and read by the film director Wim Wenders.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
Each suite of poems treats its subject matter with a discerning, mature hand: from lyrical sonnets about the life of Harriet Tubman to severe, confessional prose poems about mental illness.
—Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
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First Known Use
1716, in the meaning defined above
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“Prose poem.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prose%20poem. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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prose poem
noun
: a composition in prose that has some of the qualities of a poem
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