Louis Jenkins: North of the Cities
September 17th, 2008 bhenricksenThomas, my grandson, complains that with regular poems the lines aren’t the same length so the right side looks all messy like broken sticks. It’s the same with prose only not as bad. Thomas thinks a prose poem is nicer. The lines are all the same length, so the left side and the right side are straight. A prose poem looks like a box.
Louis Jenkins is a prose poet and a humorist, and he stuffs in his humor like candies in wonderful little boxes, like how Milk Duds used to come. You can savor Louis’s pieces one at a time, and they don’t need to be read in any particular order. Read the rest of this entry »
