Prose poems, poetic prose, and everything in-between—what’s the difference between prose and poetry? A continuum, or a hard binary? Can one be turned into another by removing or adding line breaks? (This is a rhetorical question. Alternatively, you may take it as a dare). For this issue, we invite prose writers, poets, artists, and creators of all stripes to prise apart genre definitions. We want to see poets revisit old work, or respond to another poet’s work (with their permission), and attempt to translate the spirit of a poem into prose. How, apart from line breaks, can poetry arrange itself? Prose writers, we’d love to see you prise apart the empty spaces between poems that you love, and poems that baffle you, and fill them in with your words (also with the poet’s permission). How can prose pieces make explicit or strange the usual ways they order themselves (e.g., the sentence, the paragraph)? Over the past few years, we’ve seen how even our societies have been forced to change the way they organise themselves. Now that we are nearly a year into a post-lockdown world, what changes have stuck? How have we reverted to status quo? What gaps are there? How should we change? Our open call is also interested in these questions. Prose poems, poetic prose, and everything in-between—what’s the difference between prose and poetry? A continuum, or a hard binary? Can one be turned into another by removing or adding line breaks? (This is a rhetorical question. Alternatively, you may take it as a dare). For this issue, we invite prose writers, poets, artists, and creators of all stripes to prise apart genre definitions. We want to see poets revisit old work, or respond to another poet’s work (with their permission), and attempt to translate the spirit of a poem into prose. How, apart from line breaks, can poetry arrange itself? Prose writers, we’d love to see you prise apart the empty spaces between poems that you love, and poems that baffle you, and fill them in with your words (also with the poet’s permission). How can prose pieces make explicit or strange the usual ways they order themselves (e.g., the sentence, the paragraph)? Over the past few years, we’ve seen how even our societies have been forced to change the way they organise themselves. Now that we are nearly a year into a post-lockdown world, what changes have stuck? How have we reverted to status quo? What gaps are there? How should we change? Our open call is also interested in these questions. Prose poems, poetic prose, and everything in-between—what’s the difference between prose and poetry? A continuum, or a hard binary? Can one be turned into another by removing or adding line breaks? (This is a rhetorical question. Alternatively, you may take it as a dare). For this issue, we invite prose writers, poets, artists, and creators of all stripes to prise apart genre definitions. We want to see poets revisit old work, or respond to another poet’s work (with their permission), and attempt to translate the spirit of a poem into prose. How, apart from line breaks, can poetry arrange itself? Prose writers, we’d love to see you prise apart the empty spaces between poems that you love, and poems that baffle you, and fill them in with your words (also with the poet’s permission). How can prose pieces make explicit or strange the usual ways they order themselves (e.g., the sentence, the paragraph)? Over the past few years, we’ve seen how even our societies have been forced to change the way they organise themselves. Now that we are nearly a year into a post-lockdown world, what changes have stuck? How have we reverted to status quo? What gaps are there? How should we change? Our open call is interested in these questions. Prose poems, poetic prose, and everything in-between—what’s the difference between prose and poetry?

A continuum, or a hard binary? Can one be turned into another by removing or adding line breaks? (This is a

rhetorical question. Alternatively, you may take it as a dare). For this issue, we invite prose writers, poets,

artists, and creators of all stripes to prise apart genre definitions. We want to see poets revisit old work,

or respond to another poet’s work (with their permission), and attempt to translate the spirit of a poem

into prose. How, apart from line breaks, can poetry arrange itself? Prose writers, we’d love to see you

prise apart the empty spaces between poems that you love, and poems that baffle you, and fill them

in with your words (also with the poet’s permission). How can prose pieces make explicit or

strange the usual ways they order themselves (e.g., the sentence, the paragraph)? Over the

past few years, we’ve seen how even our societies have been forced to change the way

they organise themselves. Now that we are nearly a year into a post-lockdown world,

what changes have stuck? How have we reverted to status quo? What gaps are there?

How should we change? Our open call is also interested in these questions. Prose

poems, poetic prose, and everything in-between—what’s the difference between

prose and poetry? A continuum,or a hard binary? Can one be turned into another

by removing or adding line breaks? (This is a rhetorical question. Alternatively,

you may take it as a dare). For this issue, we invite prose writers, poets, artists,

and creators of all stripes to prise apart genre definitions. We want to see poets

revisit old work, or respond to another poet’s work (with their permission),

and attempt to translate the spirit of a poem into prose. How, apart from

line breaks, can poetry arrange itself? Prose writers, we’d love to see

you prise apart the empty spaces between poems that you love, and

poems that baffle you, and fill them in with your words (also with

the poet’s permission). How can prose pieces make explicit or

strange the usual ways they order themselves (e.g., the

sentence, the paragraph)? Over the past few years,

we’ve seen how our societies have been forced to

change the way they organise themselves. Now

that we are nearly a year into a post-lockdown

world, what changes have stuck? How have

we reverted to status quo? What gaps are

there? How should we change? Our

open call is interested in

these questions.

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