The Curious ThingSandra LimW. W. Norton & Company, 2021 Review by Clara Otto The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim explores dreams, writing, and the banality of life. The poems in this collection feel as though the speaker is trying...
Happy Monday! We’re so pleased to announce the shortlist for our 2021 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize. Please join us in congratulating these six incredible poets! In other news, our 2022 Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction is open for submissions until Jan...
“The idea that I’m sitting here now, talking to someone who’s read my work and is thinking such intelligent, beautiful, and generous thoughts that are illuminating the work for me: it’s unimaginable.” – Kaveh Akbar, interviewed for PRISM Online...
PRISM is excited to announce our longlist for the 2021 Pacific Poetry Contest! Thank you to everyone for trusting us with your fabulous poetry. It was a pleasure to read your work. These 8 pieces stood out from the...
Interview by Emily ChouTranslation to English of Alex Simões’ responses by Carolyne Wright PRISM’s Emily Chou sits down to speak with Alex Simões and Carolyne Wright about Alex’s poem “Cemetery of the New Blacks,” translated by Carolyne and published...
Photo credit: Andrew BattershillInterview by Emma Cleary I am so grateful to Suzannah Showler for making time to talk with me about “Most Nights,” winner of our Grouse Grind Prize for V. Short Forms, published in our WONDER issue...
Why I Was LateCharlie PetchBrick Books, 2021 Review by Stella Cali Charlie Petch’s debut collection of poetry, Why I Was Late, opens with a love letter to C-3PO. “I always thought you were gay,” says the speaker. “I imagined...
Interview by Uche Umezurike Questions of displacement and diaspora haunt Brandon Wint’s poetry. In Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020), Wint traverses the watery routes of memory to unearth the various ways that the spectres of history haunt modernity....
Recovery CommunityConor Mc DonnellMansfield Press, 2020 Review by Robert Colman A lot has been written about life in lockdown over the past year and a half—so much so that even new literary journals, including The Quarantine Review, have been...