Poets bat around a lot of jargon about poetry: sonnet, ballad, free verse, alliteration, slant rhyme, iambic pentameter, metaphor, simile, and many other terms, including prose poetry. Prose poetry is a somewhat illusive term, and some people with the reputation for being experts say that if you want to write prose, don’t call it poetry. Some poets, however, claim to write “prose poetry” in contrast to free verse poetry. Is there a real difference?

The term “prose” comes from the Lat...

Who is your muse?
We write many types of poetry and in many styles. Does our poetry brand us? Does it pigeonhole us into one particular kind of poetry? In ancient Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, the muses were believed to be goddesses who inspired the creation of literature and the arts.
According to Wikipedia, “In one myth King Pierus, once king of Macedon, had nine daughters he named after the nine muses, believing that their skills were a great match to the Muses (mousi). He thus...