How to Use prose poem in a Sentence

prose poem

noun

• In some of Cook's 100 succinct prose poems, the flip-flopper is the poet's mind.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2017
• At times, the novel feels like a prose poem but also somewhat slow and overwritten.
  — Diane Scharper, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Algren wrote a dreamy, unstable prose poem about the city, people, the corruption, the pessimism, his own most of all.
  — chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2020
• Sylvie tells her absent lover, in the prose poems of this startlingly intimate début.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2019
• It is mostly written in prose poem with large spaces between phrases that act as line breaks.
  — Elizabeth Hoover Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• This lyrical piece for soprano soloist with orchestra sets a prose poem by James Agee, in which a young boy recalls the sights and sounds of a lazy summer evening.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 9 June 2018
• During the past few years, Rafferty has been focusing on prose poems.
  — courant.com, 18 July 2019
• Janet Mock contributed a manifesto of sorts, while Yrsa Daley-Ward’s ad is a prose poem.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2021
• His narratives are often closer to prose poems than to short stories, much less novels.
  — The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• Caldwell’s landscapes are paired with longtime collaborator Bernard Welt’s prose poem, a few snippets of which are printed on the gallery walls.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• Very quickly O’Meara’s 113-word prose poem became a communal beacon of hope, attracting the attention of Oprah and opera and thousands more.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• Very quickly O'Meara's 113-word prose poem became a communal beacon of hope, attracting the attention of Oprah and opera and thousands more.
  — Nora Krug, Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
• Unsurprisingly, this prose poem of stripper life went viral.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 25 June 2021
• Together, these pieces illustrate Harrison’s range and his ease with various formats, from lyric poems to meditative suites to prose poems.
  — Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• This final collection is made up of headlong prose poems that amount to sly — and heartbreaking — metaphysical parables about mortality.
  — New York Times, 20 Aug. 2019
• This stunning arrangement of prose poems and short lyric essays constitutes both a memoir of the author’s life as student and teacher and an insider’s critique of our educational system.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
• The result is a book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, hilarious and, eventually, deeply moving.
  — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• These starkly succinct poems and prose poems map a powerful constellation of becoming.
  — Diana Marie Delgado, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• Much of Kaufman’s work was prose poetry, and Woodberry’s film, too, is a devoted, impassioned prose poem, in which biography and history are fused with imaginative and illuminating renderings of Kaufman’s life and art.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 June 2020

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024