Great Regulars: Personally, I consider the prose poem a bastardized form,

an affectation, an unnecessary diversion, and a bit of revolutionary snobbery. To my way of thinking, it is as illogical to write poetry in the form of prose as it would be to write prose in the form of poetry. And, in fact, a lot of modern verse reads like prose. Here's an example of the latter, the canonized poem by William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just To Say," which appears in almost every literature text, rendered without the original line breaks:

from Anthony Maulucci: Norwich Bulletin: Writing poetry in prose form is useless and inane

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