The Definition:
 The prose poem has truly developed within the last thirty years.  It demonstrates the following characteristics:

1. A prose poem looks like un-indented prose, with both sentences
and fragments.
2. It uses figurative language (metaphors, similes, personification)
3. It often uses parallelism.
4. You don’t have to justify the line, just make the paragraph and let
it go.
5. It uses anecdotes or stories to convey it’s meaning.

Good Prose Poetry Web sites:
 Various Authors
  Prose poetry by Art Garfunkel

My Favorite Prose Poem:

KITCHEN RUCKUS
  By:  David Young

Broth throbs on the stove.  I journey into a turnip, but the saffron-threads,
forlorn, summon me back.  Dicing the cake, icing the carrot, while mites
converse in the oatmeal.  Singing with Tristan, humming with Brahms,
as tomatoes collapse in their sauce.  We hold these truths to be signifi-
cant—that shrimp goes well with garlic, that bread is a Promised Land,
that onions hymn in the nose. . .

Ghosts gather.  Some wear aprons.  They want to recall the taste of
wine with well-sauced pasta, to savor brown sugar dissolved in espresso,
lemon squeezed over smoked salmon.  The tongue has a mind of its
own.  The chilis are biding their time.  Wolves would come down from
the mountains just for a pear and a nugget of goat cheese.  Please saun-
ter up to this counter and sample a ladle of beans, a morsel of duck, a
slice of porcini, as the golden drizzle of sunlight dances outside on the
grill.

And which is the poem, please?  The butter, the knife that slides right
through it?  Bread rises, lamb braises.  Fruit ripens steadfast in a hand-
some old bowl.  I lick my lips.  Oh tingling shadows!  Such luck, to be
alive!

      from The Best of the Prose Poem
       ed. by Peter Johnson