PRISM Fall Issue 59.1 — VULGAR
Our latest themed issue, VULGAR, is live and we’d like to invite you to a Virtual Launch. Oct 29, 5pm PST! Location: here! In issue 59.1, you’ll find work from the three winners of the 2020 Grouse Grind Lit...
VULGAR (59.1) Online Exclusive: “Nat Has Herpes”
Written by Georgina BeatyArtwork Hot dawg by Jodie Langford AKA Bode Burnout Nat was biking back from the library when she heard someone yell, Get a bike light, asshole! She turned around, ready to defend, and there was Shannon,...
Call for Themed Submissions- “SCAB”
EXTENDED Deadline: November 30, 2020 SCAB. Not quite broken, not quite mended. A reminder of what was, and what will be. Scabs protect our wounds, and yet the temptation to pick at them and peel them off is always...
VULGAR 59.1 Teaser: Get to Know Daniel Sarah Karasik
Interview by Emily Chou While I was compiling poems for VULGAR, “Tight Pants” was one that refused to leave my brain. Something about its incredible aural qualities and inviting voice cut through all the noise and I found myself...
VULGAR 59.1 Teaser: “Naissance”
We are excited to share an excerpt from “Naissance” by Theressa Slind, which appears in our VULGAR issue (59.1). “Naissance” is everything we’d hoped for in our call for submissions; it’s surprising, fun, and forces us to look at...
And so I translate: An Interview with Somrita Urni Ganguly
Photo credit: Justin Eli KahnInterview by Alex Valente Alex Valente: Somrita, thank you for agreeing to do this! Literary translation is one of those fields where everyone eventually really does know everyone else, and your name keeps cropping up,...
Ecstatic Love: A Review of Kevin Spenst’s “Hearts Amok”
Hearts AmokKevin SpenstAnvil Press, 2020 Review by Robert Colman Kevin Spenst has been inextricably linked to Canada’s small press poetry world for the better part of the past decade. Prior to 2020’s Hearts Amok (Anvil Press) he’d published not...
Announcing the winners of the 2020 Creative Non-Fiction Contest!
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of this year’s Creative Non-fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Alexander Chee! Grand Prize “Ghost Bread” by Angelique Stevens Angelique Stevens is Haudenosaunee and Italian. Her nonfiction can be found in LitHub, The...
“The Last Aubade”: A Review of Catherine Owen’s “Designated Mourner and “Riven”
Designated MournerCatherine OwenECW Press, 2014 Riven Catherine OwenECW Press, 2020 Review by Kim Trainor Last night I went down to the river, the Fraser slipping through Delta’s fingers, past Westham Island, mud-green flow of water tipped silver out to sea....