U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass on what is prose poetry, role of poetry etc.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/haas/prosepoems.htm

In 1997 I was at a poetry slam downtown where a group of high school students "slammed" well-known poets such as Nikki Giovanni, the audience gave grades by holding up cards with numbers on them and the high school students won.

Kyi May Kaung