PRISM is excited to share the winning pieces from our 2021 Pacific Poetry Contest along with Cecily Nicholson’s judge’s essay. Cecily Nicholson is the author of three books, most recently Wayside Sang, which won the Governor General’s award for English-language poetry. She...
A Group of Sixty-Seven after Jin-Me Yoon’s A Group of Sixty-Seven, 1996 It was not my place to wonder at the gleam of sixty-seven Asian busts whose backs are turned to me. Not my place to wander the...
To the End of Redaction In the end the news suggests stories for women over forty with big data then tells quiet predictions about the future of the weather in the end your big data diverts death to other...
Ways to Leave, or Waves
AutowarAssiyah Jamilla TouréBrick Books, 2021 Review by Catherine Harris Assiyah Jamilla Touré’s debut collection is both concrete and abstract, dissolving and rematerializing into new forms at every turn. The speaker in Touré’s collection is repeatedly reborn, shedding their previous...
The RenunciationsDonika Kelly Graywolf Press, 2021 Review by Stella Cali Donika Kelly’s second collection of poetry, The Renunciations, begins with fire as a transitional force that overwrites the physical landscape of the speaker’s body. Standing in a field, “the undergrowth...
60.2 is live! In issue 60.2, you’ll find work from the three winners of the 2021 Creative Non-Fiction Contest: Emma Zimmerman, Jess Taylor, and Daniel Kessel. This issue also features a stunning cover photo, “The Moment is Now,” by...
Our shortest-form contest is officially open for submissions until April 15! The Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms is judged by PRISM’s editorial board. We’re ready to dig into your flash fiction, micro-memoir, poetic hybrids and everything...
Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism Daphné B. Translated by Alex ManleyCoach House Books, 2021 Review by Alanna Why When you think of make-up, do you think of a frivolous activity or a form of self-care? For...