PRISM is excited to share this wonderful poem, “The Great Minnesota Get-Together” by Ginger Ayla from our 62.2 issue, available for purchase now. The Great Minnesota Get-Together Truth? I’m chickenshit. Like it’s my stretch marks snaking upriver to God....
Big Shadowby Marta BalcewiczBook*hug Press, 2023 Review by Kristina Rothstein The Big Shadow is coming. Judy has just finished high school and is on the brink of university, adulthood, and a whole new life. She is also tasked with...
PRISM Prompts is a treasure chest full of muses, wonderings, and inspiration for both seasoned writers who are itching for a new approach to their craft and new writers who are looking for a place to get started, somewhere outside of...
Anaïs Nin: A Sea of LiesLéonie Bischoff (Translated by Jenna Allen)Fantagraphics, 2023 Review by Victoria McIntyre In Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies, twisted multicoloured strands of pencil crayon depict the life and budding yearnings of the famous writer....
The FutureCatherine Leroux (Translated by Susan Ouriou)Biblioasis, 2023 Review by Marcie McCauley Catherine Leroux’s novel The Future (freshly translated by Susan Ouriou) presents a complex, layered story that probes how people navigate turbulent times, alone and together. She asks...
The BoulevardJerrod EdsonGalleon Books, 2023 Review by Steven Mayoff On a train trip through Hell’s outer reaches to find Vincent Van Gogh, the Devil tells Ernest Hemingway about when God banished him and his angelic cohort from the vibrant...
Light SpillLaura Mota-Juang Block Party, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Laura Mota-Juang’s imaginative debut chapbook, Light Spill, creates an electrifying atmosphere where abstract concepts and intimate longings alike materialize in startlingly luminous forms. These are poems committed to stretching...
HeldAnne MichaelsKnopf, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Anne Michaels’s third novel, Held, is a dizzying marvel of both lyric beauty and structural vision. Equal parts secretive and sincere, Michaels’s latest is ever probing, seeking, as it discovers intimacies that...
Based on an exercise by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich PRISM Prompts is a treasure chest full of muses, wonderings, and inspiration for both seasoned writers who are itching for a new approach to their craft and new writers who are looking...