PRISM is proud to share the longlisted stories from The Jacob Zilber Prize for Short Fiction Contest judged by Heather O’Neill. Heather O’Neill is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She is the writer of favourites like Lullabies...
CustomsSolmaz SharifGraywolf Press, 2022 Review by ALHS Solmaz Sharif’s Customs opens with an eruption in the face of the violence of conditionality: “I had to.” This first poem is titled “America.” Customs is poetry about conditionality in that it...
Interview by Diane Gottlieb “If You Think the Way to Learn,” the first poem in Ana Maria Spagna’s Mile Marker Six, takes us right to the heart of this collection: it moves from Spagna’s past to her present, from...
Blue-Skinned GodsS.J. SinduSoho Press, 2021 Review by Marcie McCauley In Blue-Skinned Gods, S.J. Sindu presents a narrative designed to challenge readers’ understanding of truth and trust, belonging and belief. “I had hoped for a story,” Kalki muses, but “instead...
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...
