If you have suggestions for more resources, please shoot them to us in an email (proemjournal (at) gmail.com). Thanks!

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Interwebs:

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Places to find places to submit:

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www.Newpages.com: great site for bazillions of journal listings, book and mag reviews, interviews, and so much more!

TheReviewReview: also a great site for gazillions of journal listings, book/mag reviews, interviews, and so much more!

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Journals:

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Contemporary Haibun Online

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(we're working on this section, as many journals accept proems these days, and we need to get on the ball about proem specific journals)

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Proem Collections (Individual and Anthology):

 

 

Alexander, Robert, C.W. Truesdale, Mark Vinz. Eds. The Party Train: A Collection of American Prose Poetry. Minneapolis, Minnesota: New Rivers Press, 1996.

 

Ashbery, John. Three Poems. New York: Penguin Books, 1978.

 

Baudelaire, Charles. Paris Spleen 1869. Trans. Louise Varèse. New York: New     Directions, 1970.

 

Benedikt, Michael. The Prose Poem. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.

 

Berg, Stephen. New and Selected Poems. Copper Canyon P, 1992.

 

Bly, Robert. What Have I Ever Lost By Dying? New York: Harper Collins, 1992.

 

Carson, Anne. The Autobiography of Red. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

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Chinquee, Kim. Oh Baby. Ravenna Press, 2008.

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Davis, Lydia. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. 2008. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

 

Edson, Russell. The Intuitive Journey and Other Works. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.

 

---. The Tormented Mirror. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2001.

 

---. The Wounded Breakfast. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan UP, 1985.

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Ehrhardt, Pia Z. Famous Fathers and Other Stories. MacAdam Cage, 2007.

 

Gonzalez, Ray. Ed. No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets. Dorset, Vermont: Tupelo P, 2003.

 

Guest, Barbara. The Confetti Trees. Los Angeles, California: Sun and Moon P, 1999.

 

Haas, Robert. Human Wishes. New York: The Ecco P, 1989.

 

Hankla, Cathryn. Texas School Book Depository: Prose Poems. New Orleans: Louisiana State P, 2000.

 

Hejinian, Lyn. My Life. Los Angeles, California: Green Integer, 2002.

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Kaminsky, Ilya. Dancing in Odessa. Dorset, VT: Tupelo Press, 2004.

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---. Deaf Republic. Graywolf Press, 2019.

 

Keene, Dennis. Trans. and Ed. The Modern Japanese Prose Poem: An Anthology of Six Poets. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.

 

Koncel, Mary. Closer to Day. Florence, Massachusetts: Quale P, 1999.

 

---. You Can Tell The Horse Anything. Dorset, Vermont: Tupelo P, 2004.

 

Mallarmé, Stephen. Poems. Trans. Roger Fry. London: Vision P, 1951.

 

McGrath, Campbell. Road Atlas: Prose & Other Poems. New York: The Ecco P, 1999.

 

Oliver, Mary. What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems. New York: DaCapo P, 2003.

 

Paz, Octavio. Aguila o Sol? Eagle or Sun? Trans. Eliot Weinberger. New York: October House, 1970.

 

---, Ali Chumacero, Mark Strand, et al. Eds. New Poetry of Mexico. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1970.

 

---. Selected Poems of Octavio Paz. Trans. Muriel Rukeyser. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1963.

 

Simic, Charles. The World Doesn’t End. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

 

Waldrop, Rosemarie. Reluctant Gravities. New York: New Directions, 1999.

 

Wright, James. This Journey. New York: Random House, 1982.

 

---. To A Blossoming Pear Tree. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1977.

 

 

 

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Critical Works:

 

 

Caws, Mary Ann, Hermine Riffaterre. Eds. The Prose Poem in France: Theory and Practice. New York: Columbia UP, 1983.

 

Clements, Brian, Jamey Dunham, Eds. An Introduction to the Prose Poem. Connecticut: Firewheel Editions, 2009.

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Cohn, Robert Greer. Mallarmé’s Prose Poems: A Critical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.

 

Delville, Michel. The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.

 

Finch, Annie. The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.

 

Fredman, Stephen. Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

 

Hartman, Charles O. Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980

 

Hiddleston, J.A. Baudelaire and Le Spleen de Paris. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1987.

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McDowell, Gary, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Eds. The Rose Metal Field Guide to Prose Poetry. Rose Metal Press, 2010.

 

Metzidakis, Stamos. Repetition and Semiotics: Interpreting Prose Poems. Birmingham, Alabama: Summa Publications, Inc., 1986.

 

Monroe, Jonathan. A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987.

 

Monte, Steven. Invisible Fences: Prose Poetry as a Genre in French and American Literature. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000.

 

Murphy, Margueritte S. A Tradition of Subversion: The Prose Poem in English from Wilde to Ashbery. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1992.

 

Plumly, Stanley. “Narrative Values, Lyric Imperatives.” Argument & Song: Sources and Silences in Poetry. Handsel Books, 2003. pp. 263-317.

 

Ratiner, Steven. “Mary Oliver—A Solitary Walk.” Giving Their Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2002. pp. 39-62.

 

---. “Charles Simic—The Toy of Language.” Giving Their Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2002. pp. 75-93.

 

Santilli, N. Such Rare Citings: The Prose Poem in English Literature. New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002.

 

Silliman, Ron. “Towards Prose.” The New Sentence. New York: Roof Books, 1987.

pp. 94-108.

 

Stephens, Sonya. Baudelaire’s Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.

 

Warner, Adrian. Russian Minimalism: From the Prose Poem to the Anti-Story. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern UP, 2003.

 

Wesling, Donald. “Historical and Structural Coordinates.” The Chances of Rhyme: Device and Modernity. Berkeley: U of California P, 1980. pp. 1-34.

 

 

 

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Other Resources:

 

 

Simpson, Amelia. Trans. Octavio Paz. One Word to the Other. Mansfield, Texas: Latitudes P, 1992.