Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with Vancouver poet Elee Kraljii Gardiner to discuss her debut poetry collection “serpentine loop“. A “serpentine loop” is a figure which skaters etch in the ice with their blades, and it serves as...
Interview by Matthew Walsh Erín Moure’s latest project, Kapusta, was released by House of Anansi Press in 2015. It follows the character, E., in what is described as a “play-poem ash, a cabaret,” placing E. in the smallest of places,...
If you haven’t picked up the latest issue of PRISM international and need another reason to, here’s an interview by Poetry Editor Dominique Bernier-Cormier in conversation with contributor Jacob McArthur Mooney. Mooney is is the editor of The Best Canadian Poetry...
Interview by James W. Wood Albert F. Moritz (A.F. Moritz) is the author of 20 books of poetry. He has received the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the ReLit Award (for Night Street...
Phedra Deonarine was the Truman Capote Fellow in the Rutgers-Newark MFA in Creative Writing Program. Her work has appeared in The Indiana Review, MIEL, The Golden Key, and others. She is currently working on a short story collection, tentatively titled Fishing...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with Kenyan poet, and recently named Brunel University African Poetry Prize finalist, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo to discuss her new chapbook “Dagoretti Corner”. “Dagoretti Corner” is one of eight chapbooks included in...
Interview by Kyle McKillop What befalls the outsider? Poet, novelist, and short story writer George McWhirter has often examined the newcomer and outsider and how they manage in an unfamiliar or disdainful society. McWhirter’s first-ever published story, “The Extinction...
Former PRISM poetry editor (2014-15) Rob Taylor sat down with Kenyan-born, Ugandan-raised Vancouverite Juliane Okot Bitek about her debut poetry collection 100 Days, which was published in January 2016 by University of Alberta Press. Okot Bitek is currently a PhD...
As a teaser for our exciting, star-packed Spring Issue (54:3), we have a poem by Adèle Barclay, our latest poetry-crush here at PRISM. This is only one of six poems we’re publishing, so make sure to pick up the issue...