The first news of 2021: Our Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize winners, as chosen by contest judge Ariana Brown! Congratulations Karen, Natalie, and Imani! Grand Prize “only the bottom left quadrant of my hair is full” by Karen Lee karen...
A Violent Streak Stephanie Warner Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd., 2018 Review by Mormei Zanke Stephanie Warner’s debut poetry collection A Violent Streak begins with a question: “Or is it a seam?” (15). Warner doesn’t waste any time, entreating the reader to...
Questions by Kyla Jamieson Photo by Dana Jansens Get to know writer Djamila Ibrahim, whose poems “Bloodletting” and “Brine” appear in our winter issue 57.2. If you don’t have the issue yet, have a sneak peak at “Bloodletting”, which we...
Artwork by Syd Danger “powerade” by Ivanna Baranova to say i know some things in a way of saying i know many things to say i know many things in a way of saying fuck me and the...
Cover Photo: W A T A R I In anticipation of PRISM’s winter issue 57.2, we’re so excited to share “Bloodletting” by Djamila Ibrahim. This wonderful poem, as well as more of Djamila’s work, will appear in the print...
Reviews by Esther Chen This Love Is Mad Reciprocal – Liam Coady Glass Buffalo On the cover of Liam Coady’s chapbook This Love Is Mad Reciprocal, the blossoming branch of a cherry blossom tree bears fruit in the form...
Orange Christine Herzer Ugly Duckling Presse Review by Abby Paige “Poets are containers,” Christine Herzer asserts and further, “containers deserve respect.” The image of the container is central in her new chapbook, Orange. A container may be a...
The following is an excerpt from What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation, which will be published by Nightwood Editions in late November 2018. The book will feature conversations between twenty-two of Canada’s top modern poets. Marilyn Dumont:...
By Robert Colman Books discussed: Complete Physical by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2010) On Shaving Off His Face by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2015) Dysphoria by Shane Neilson (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2017) According to Deadly Force, a...