... as it stands we are not exactly Legion, but growing. Since growing is what we desire (as long as we can do it without losing our nature [a workshop environment] and quality, this idea sounds immediately like a good one.
And before we have any knees jerking, I don't consider it a bad one, but numbers can pose a threat. For lack of a better I will call the threat- anonymity. Even before I was asked to become a mentor and lead a workshop, before being elected to serve a term as Chair of the AC, I was hard pressed to partake of every poet at the site. Much less every poem by every poet (which I would dearly love to do). Adding prose to the mix puts a lot of new ingredients into the stew that I can't keep up with. Don't get me wrong. I'm not dismissing the idea out of hand, but I do think it needs a lot of good old fashioned debate in this vein before opening that gate.
wesley

When we had a prose section in the past it was fairly much posted in, but hardly ever commented in.

It's not why people come to a site called Neopoet.

That we have Neopoet as a workshop, and the odd poem (Maybe many poems)
Are posted alongside the workshops that are in progress is enough.
We also have workshops for prose to poetry or something like this at the odd time.
That I can post the odd poem here and there and it receives attention is really good this means that some are being taught to critique outside of the workshops.
We have a great site here for all, and changes take place to the order of their value to the site and of course the poets that use it.
I do feel strongly though, that there are not enough comments being written by our members, just have a look back at the number of times any of us comment on a poem only to be ignored, I put out a list a few weeks ago of people that had not replied to my comments.
Let's sort out a better comment and reply system, when a poem that is not good gets many comments, and some relatively good works are ignored, then this is the thing to sort out.
I look forward to Jess tearing through some of my words and giving his good advise and there are a few, "FEW" others that comment also but our members need a wake up call, Yours Ian.T

I assume by prose you refer to such as short stories or essays. I have written a few short stories and even posted a few here as blogs. I say this to make it clear that I have no agenda against good prose.But I think the demand for it on site would need to greatly expand before going to the trouble of creating another category just for prose. Now poetic prose would be a different thing. I would be all for adding poetic prose to the forms selection. ...........stan

I think there is a danger you would lose the essence of Neopoet. A poetry critique and workshop site.
No objection against some prose in blogs etc, but not really as a feature of this site.
Perhaps a sister site - Neoprose - that was a bit tongue in cheek :-) Jx

nay

poetic prose ? It's not very different from good free verse and is good practice for using imagery and such............stan

This is a poetry site. That's my thoughts on that.

Nah, TLDR (too long, don't read).
Freeform poetry, sure, no wuzzas

people with bubble bum machine attentions
lovecraft and poe..they wrote paragraphs
in their day..they had too..
I felt therefore I might be
WOULD HAVE been laughed
out of the stately offices
then....
I think we need a seperate
room where the ignorant
and blind can avoid
and those with truly creative
eyes can open up trade short
works without the stupid
crititgue of the the ego jealous
kind we see everywhere...

come here dying and write like they are king of the beach
hello....its 2018 almost....
Im the welcome odd man...from sixteen to sixty
so...bow the ones i met befriended are out there
from the crombies..hitting the waves
and the elders hit the markets and found the fresh lambs
fresh taters tomatos..onions...beer
my flank left old gals who will be awake by the driftwood
fires later and the young who will be zonked from riding
the face of the curls now...
scary monsters..super freaks...
each generation has their route
role.
hee haw..

and I don't blame you.
It's true, attention span is short.
But consider also the situation of your reader.
Are they reading on a phone on a bus?
Sitting at a desk with their their PC?
Using a laptop somewhere?
Perhaps an ebook reader?
Optimal would be in a comfy chair with an ebook reader, but we don't all have that.

...after all, a significant proportion of items posted are basically prose cut up "artistically" into lines. Not always artistically.