Sudden Prose: Prose Poetry and Short-Short Stories

You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave after the 2015 Tbilisi flood Half the zoo mislaid, the reporter calls them residents, as th...

I read this poem by Mary Jean Chan in PN Review and at once asked if I could reprint it in this series.  Long Distance You are r...

Ian Seed interviews Lucy Hamilton on her first collection of prose poems, Stalker,  here: https://tearsinthefence.com/2018/02/02/an-intervi...

From  The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue What of the Heart? Everybody looks below the surface hoping they’ll find some meanin...

From The True Story of Cowboy Hat and I ngénue Gordita On a day without any breeze the Commander is strolling across the sleep...

Green Green were the waves on the Zambezi bouncing our rubber raft, close to the sharp cliffs, then far, high out of the wat...

This compelling prose poem appears in Em Strang's first collection, Bird-Woman , just out from Shearsman Books.  HARE In Mem...