Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, #10
Sentence is the place to find the best prose poetry in circulation. --American Book ReviewThis is the best magazine of its kind since Peter Johnson's legendary magazine The Prose Poem ceased publication. --Bloomsbury ReviewSentence Number 9 Excerpt from Review by Justin Brouckaert Brian Johnson takes over as the editor of Sentence in this issue, and if his first issue at the helm is any indication, this journal won t miss a beat with the change. Sentence features more than sixty prose poems that are brief, beautiful and complex, often adding to the discussion of how far to stretch the ever-evolving boundaries of prose poetry through their own exploration. In a genre that was born and lives within gray areas, Sentence continues to extend the definition of what the prose poem can be, flirting around the borders of free verse poetry nearly as often as it approaches flash fiction or the essay form. Despite the wide range of styles and content displayed in Sentence, its poems all share similar traits: they are poignant, often hauntingly so, and achingly complex on many levels. They are both open and distant, with meanings and images that often linger just beyond my reach, close enough to stay fresh in my mind long after I read the final sentence. --NewpagesSentence Number 9 Excerpt from Review by Justin Brouckaert Brian Johnson takes over as the editor of Sentence in this issue, and if his first issue at the helm is any indication, this journal won t miss a beat with the change. Sentence features more than sixty prose poems that are brief, beautiful and complex, often adding to the discussion of how far to stretch the ever-evolving boundaries of prose poetry through their own exploration. In a genre that was born and lives within gray areas, Sentence continues to extend the definition of what the prose poem can be, flirting around the borders of free verse poetry nearly as often as it approaches flash fiction or the essay form. Despite the wide range of styles and content displayed in Sentence, its poems all share similar traits: they are poignant, often hauntingly so, and achingly complex on many levels. They are both open and distant, with meanings and images that often linger just beyond my reach, close enough to stay fresh in my mind long after I read the final sentence. --Newpages