Keetje Kuipers earned her B.A. at Swarthmore College and her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. In 2007 she was the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Resident, and from 2009-2011 she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her book, Beautiful in the Mouth, won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was published by BOA Editions in 2010. Keetje is now the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College.
I’ll be honest: I’m not usually much of a fan of prose poems. I like lineation, form, structure. Give me meter, syllabics, some rules to cling to—if I want a…