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The Rose Metal Press FIELD GUIDE TO PROSE POETRY:

Contemporary Poets in Discussion and PracticeEdited by Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek

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FEATURING ESSAYS FROM: Nin Andrews - Joe Bonomo - John Bradley - Brigitte Byrd - Maxine Chernoff - David Daniel - Denise Duhamel - Nancy Eimers - Beckian Fritz Goldberg - Ray Gonzalez - Arielle Greenberg - Kevin Griffith - Carol Guess - Maurice Kilwein Guevara - James Harms - Bob Hicok - Tung-Hui Hu - Christopher Kennedy - David Keplinger - Gerry LaFemina - David Lazar - Alexander Long - Kathleen McGookey - Robert Miltner - Amy Newman - William Olsen - Andrew Michael Roberts - Michael Robins - Mary Ann Samyn - Maureen Seaton - David Shumate - Jeffrey Skinner - Mark Wallace - Gary Young

A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practi-tioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry is as personal and provocative, accessible and idiosyncratic as the genre itself. The essayists discuss their craft, influences, and experiences, all while pondering larger questions: What is prose poetry? Why write prose poems? With its pioneer-ing introduction, this collection provides a history of the development of the prose poem up to its cur-rent widespread appeal. Half critical study and half anthology, The Field Guide to Prose Poetry is a not-to-be-missed companion for readers and writers of poetry, as well as students and teachers of creative writing.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Kathleen Rooney: (617) 548.9145; rosemetalpress@gmail.com

APRIL 2010ISBN 978-0-9789848-8-5Paperback, 224 pagesEssays and Prose Poems$16.95

FEATURING ESSAYS FROM:Nin Andrews – Joe Bonomo – John Bradley – Brigitte Byrd

Maxine Chernoff – David Daniel – Denise Duhamel – Nancy Eimers

Beckian Fritz Goldberg – Ray Gonzalez – Arielle Greenberg

Kevin Griffith – Carol Guess – Maurice Kilwein Guevara – James Harms

Bob Hicok – Tung-Hui Hu – Christopher Kennedy – David Keplinger

Gerry LaFemina – David Lazar – Alexander Long – Kathleen McGookey

Robert Miltner – Amy Newman – William Olsen – Andrew Michael Roberts

Michael Robins – Mary Ann Samyn – Maureen Seaton – David Shumate

Jeffrey Skinner – Mark Wallace – Gary Young

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“Make room on the short shelf of essential books about the prose poem for this terrific Field Guide. Its innovative format—part anthology, part critical investigation—makes it an ideal starting point for newcomers, while its many insights will surely inspire even long-term readers and writers of this much-misunderstood form. Casual, diverse and entertaining, it might just launch a new generation of American prose poets.”

— Campbell McGrath, author of Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished

practitioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry is as personal and

provocative, accessible and idiosyncratic as the genre itself. The essayists discuss

their craft, influences, and experiences, all while pondering larger questions:

What is prose poetry? Why write prose poems? With its pioneering introduction,

this collection provides a history of the development of the prose poem up to

its current widespread appeal. Half critical study and half anthology, The Field

Guide to Prose Poetry is a not-to-be-missed companion for readers and writers

of poetry, as well as students and teachers of creative writing.

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Advance Praise for The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry

Make room on the short shelf of essential books about the prose poem for this terrific Field Guide. Its innovative format—part anthology, part critical investigation—makes it an ideal starting point for newcomers, while its many insights will surely inspire even long-term readers and writers of this much-misunderstood form. Casual, diverse and entertaining, it might just launch a new generation of American prose poets. —Campbell McGrath, author of Shannon: a Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

It looks as if the prose poem ungirdles the latent surrealist, fabulist, Baudelairean flaneur, and Joycean punster in many a writer of mainstream American verse. Here’s a collection of testimonies to a fertile and potent modern form that’s still going strong in its third century. Prose plus poetry? As Rimbaud might say — in fact, did say once in a prose poem — “Drôle de ménage!” —Mark Jarman, author of Epistles

If ever you find the prose poem wandering your neighborhood with its strange and beautiful hands stuffed sadly in its pockets, spellbound and feral, searching its body for the lines that keep it, go to it and give the fantastic mongrel The Field Guide so it can find its way back to itself — for here is a guide that honors its anatomy with the same bewilder and brilliance that designed its first breath. —Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Tsim Tsum

About the EditorsGary L. McDowell teaches writing at Western Michigan University where he is studying for his PhD in Contemporary Poetics and American Literature. His first collection of poems, American Amen, won the 2009 Orphic Prize and will appear in late 2010 from Dream Horse Press. He is also the author of two chapbooks, They Speak of Fruit (Cooper Dillon, 2009) and The Blueprint (Pudding House, 2005). He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with his wife and their young son, Auden.

F. Daniel Rzicznek teaches English composition and creative writing at Bowling Green State University. His chapbook of prose poems, Cloud Tablets, part of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series, was published by Kent State University Press in 2006. In 2007, he won the May Swenson Poetry Award for his debut full-length collection, Neck of the World. In 2009 his second collection of poems, Divination Machine, appeared on the Free Verse Editions imprint of Parlor Press. He lives with his wife, the writer Amanda McGuire, in Bowling Green, Ohio.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Kathleen Rooney: (617) 548.9145; rosemetalpress@gmail.com