I wanted to post a heads up on SMP. There have been questions about the SMP format. For individual poetry books, we accept poetic narratives. This means a collection of poems that tells a story. This also extends to poetic diaries (a chronological display of personal poetry relating to one's life) as well as poetic memoirs (A topic illustrated through poetry on personal accomplishments, struggles, life changes, etc.) For our poetic anthologies we accept prose poetry, free verse, and traditional poetry. As for prose, this is often a confusing word. Prose is offering information in a more straightforward manner than that of poetry. Prose also is usually displayed in paragraph form. SMP does not encourage submitting common prose.

SMP does, however, encourage sending prose poetry. Yes, this is confusing, but different. Prose poetry can break away from traditional meters etc. but still offers a strong emotional effect and imagery. In other words, there is a deeper meaning to prose poetry than just conveying information, and there is poetic structure, not just paragraphs.

Additionally, SMP encourages free verse. This is when poets purposely break away from tradition, and write freely with uniquely structured stanzas and no fixed metrical pattern.

This is a very confusing topic, but people often confuse prose, prose poetry, and free verse. For even more of a break down on this topic look here:
http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/91-prose.htm

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