Topic summary
Prose poems
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Prose poetry.
History
Prose poems made a resurgence in the early 1950s and in the 1960s with American poets Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Russell Edson, Charles Simic, Robert Bly, John Ashbery, and James Wright. Simic won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1989 collection, The World Doesn't End.