Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # prose poems Bite-size but packs a punch ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.prosepoems.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [What's a Prose Poem?](https://www.prosepoems.com/2023/10/15/15/) - A prose poem is above all, brief. It must be formatted in paragraphs, preferably one. This diminutive size is part of what makes them tick. The result? Strange little houses. A form that's about as open-ended as it gets. They can be surreal. They can be angry. They can be daggers cast at political oppressors. ## Pages - [Prose Poems Issues 11 and 12, January-February 2026](https://www.prosepoems.com/) - Prose Poems by Erika Zambello, John Levy, R.W. Thorne, and Sydney Lea. Guest poem by editor Brett Ortler. - [Submissions](https://www.prosepoems.com/masthead-2/) - NOTE: We are closed for the summer! Sorry, spring came early here in Minnesota, so bug-hunting season did too! If you've submitted work, I'll hold on to it until the fall! Please read our submission guidelines carefully. Anything that doesn't follow the guidelines below will be deleted. Prose Poems is an online-only publication, though we - [Back Issues of Prose Poems](https://www.prosepoems.com/back-issues-of-prose-poems/) - Click on images below to see each issue. Note: We've jumped around a bit in terms of format/typeface, so things are a bit discordant. Also, in some months, we produce standalone issues each month, but if we're short on submissions (or editorial time!) we sometimes produce issues that span two months. - [Issue 10, November-December 2025](https://www.prosepoems.com/prose-poem-issue-10-november-december-2025/) - MY FIRST HORROR SHOW I remember screaming and wanting to run from the living room that time you came home drunk. When we lived in Redwood City, in the house off Bayshore Highway on Hoover Street, the same name as my grade school. Mom had locked the door even though it was still daylight and The new issue of Prose Poems, with prose poems by Ed Higgins, Kale Hensley, Shiela E. Murphy, and Will Cordeiro. - [Issues 8 and 9, March and April 2025](https://www.prosepoems.com/issues-7-and-8-march-and-april-2025/) - This issue of Prose Poems features prose poetry by Michele Harmeling, David James, and Kevin Canfield - [Issues 6 and 7, January and February 2025](https://www.prosepoems.com/prose-poems-issues-6-and-7-january-and-february-2025/) - Prose Poems issues 6 and 7. Featuring poetry by Dan Pinkerton, C.W. Bryan, and Lyanne Wang. And we've started a poetry press! Knockout Books, an imprint of Gray Duck Press, is proud to announce our first release, Democracy of Noise, by Dan Pinkerton. - [Issue 5, December 2024](https://www.prosepoems.com/656-2/) - Prose Poems Issue 5, December 2024. - [Issue 3, January 2024](https://www.prosepoems.com/prose-poems-3/) - The third issue of Prose Poems features work by Natalie Tomlin, Jason Heroux, Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington, Rupert Ficke, and John Levy. - [Issue 2, December 2023](https://www.prosepoems.com/prose-poems-issue-2/) - Featuring Dag T. Straumsvåg, Fleda Brown, Sam Moe, Claire Bateman - [Issue 1, November 2023](https://www.prosepoems.com/prose-poems-is-a-new-literary-magazine-home-to-prose-poems-flash-fiction-and-short-shorts-a-home-for-the-funny-the-profound-the-weird-and-everything-in-between/) - Prose Poems is a literary magazine dedicated to prose poems: paragraph-length poems that are decidedly the weird kids of the poetry world. But they are also, like many weird kids, delightful and moving and profound. And funny. Judge for yourself! - [Issue 4, February 2024](https://www.prosepoems.com/prose-poems-issue-4-february-2024/) - Featuring Angela Acosta, Bart Plantenga, John Bradley, Shome Dasgupta, Gary Fincke, and C.M. Gigliotti - [Masthead](https://www.prosepoems.com/masthead/) - Editor, Brett Ortler, co-editor/founder of Knockout Literary Magazine and former poetry editor of Willow Springs. Author of Lessons of the Dead, Fomite, 2019. For more, visit brettortler.com Other Staff(T)editor in Chief: Ted. Pawblicity assistants, Sherman, the Yorkie, and Zelda Anne Schneebelschnabel, the Schanuzer. prose poems is based out of the north suburbs of the Twin - [Knockout](https://www.prosepoems.com/knockout-literary-magazine/) - Knockout Literary Magazine, including a bit about its history, past issue lineups for every issue, and cover art. Founded by Jeremy Halinen and Brett Ortler. ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://www.prosepoems.com/category/uncategorized/)