Hello beautiful reader! As we move towards the colder months, I have been returning to our Winter 2025 issue, PRISM 63.1 SPELLS (sold-out). This was a very special issue for me, as the first issue I worked on as Poetry Editor. This poem, “Where you are not permitted to spread you must ascend” by Clare Bayard, is one of the most powerful pieces I’ve come across during my time at PRISM. It is a poem of witness: it speaks to a reality often erased. I hope it hits you as hard as it hit me. | PRISM international
As we begin to wrap up work on our FILTH issue, I am reminded of one of the pieces published by PRISM that tickled my brain about what kind of work could be teased out if we set a theme around the concept of transgression and taboo. Ironically, the selections we received surprised me in […]| PRISM international
Lovely PRISM reader, we have a big treat for you today, Wishbone by Shaelin Bishop. This short fiction piece was originally published in our Spring 2020 issue, PRISM 58.3, Sprawl. Wishbone is a Michelin-star dessert of a story: it’s delicate, adventurous, and subtle, and it ends with just the right amount of sinful indulgence. Dig in.| PRISM international
Hello all! I’m excited to introduce this new online segment, “From the Archives,” where we’ll share and celebrate some selected pieces from the PRISM archives. To start us off, I’ve selected Kyle Okeke’s “Gate of Wonder,” 2nd runner-up for...| prismmagazine.ca
Lovely PRISM reader, we have a big treat for you today, Wishbone by Shaelin Bishop. This short fiction piece was originally published in our Spring 2020 issue, PRISM 58.3, Sprawl. Wishbone is a Michelin-star dessert of a story: it’s delicate, adventurous, and subtle, and it ends with just the right amount of sinful indulgence. Dig in.| PRISM international
I’m excited to introduce this new online segment, “From the Archives,” where we’ll share and celebrate some selected pieces from the PRISM archives. To start us off, I’ve selected Kyle Okeke’s “Gate of Wonder,” 2nd runner-up for the 2024 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize contest, as chosen by Oliver Baez Bendorf. This poem is a cottonball fever dream, a textural striptease, a pastoral avalanche. I think it will resonate with many readers.| PRISM international
Death by a Thousand Cuts Shashi Bhat Penguin Random House, 2024. Review by Bethany Lake There is an old school of thought in literature to make no mention of technology for fear of dating the written work. In her new collection of short stories, Death by a Thousand Cuts, Shashi Bhat walks the fine line […]| PRISM international
Trading Beauty Secrets with the DeadBy Erina HarrisWolsak & Wynn, 2024 Review by Rosalie Morris Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead is a new collection of poetry from Edmonton-based author Erina Harris. The collection is a complex celebration of intertextuality, children’s stories, women’s work, and the concept of play. Harris takes a wide variety of […]| PRISM international
Unit 29: Writing from Parchman PrisonVOX Books. Interview by P.B. Jernigan I don’t remember the first time I heard about Parchman Prison. It has always existed in my memory, the heavy history looming over the entirety of Mississippi. Parchman has long influenced the creative culture of Mississippi, serving as a motif in iconic works of […]| PRISM international
echolalia echolaliaJane ShiBrick Books, 2024 Review by Madelaine Caritas Longman After reading the first poem in Jane Shi’s debut, echolalia echolalia, I put down the book and paced in circles. My heart knocked against my chest; my fingers transfigured into vibrating moth wings. I had forgotten language could be so embodied, so gut-hot and defiantly […]| PRISM international
Buzzkill Clamshell Amber Dawn Arsenal Pulp Press Review by Margo LaPierre Pain can limit us. A bed can be a constraint. But in Amber Dawn’s third solo collection of poetry and eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, constraint elevates and intensifies. Buzzkill Clamshell opens its first poem, “The Erotics of Chronic Pain,” with an old […]| PRISM international
Woman, Life, Freedom: Poems for the Iranian RevolutionBänoo Zan and Cy Strom, EditorsGuernica Editions, 2025 Reviewed by Jeannine M. Pitas On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa “Jina” Amini, a Kurdish minority in Iran, was beaten to death by the Islamic Republic’s morality police, allegedly for improperly wearing the hijab. This incident led to an eruption […]| PRISM international
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