Photo by Oriette D’AngeloInterview by Sara Mang I first encountered the generosity and brilliance of Garth Greenwell during the Disquiet Literary Program in Lisbon, where he encouraged his students to feel the sentences in our bodies. Greenwell’s innovative new...
Pots and Other Living Beingsannie rossTalonbooks, 2019 A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty BowlM. Travis LanePalimpsest Press, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor With the advent of SARS-CoV-2, for many of us there has been a contraction of the world...
Interview by Erica Commisso April 20 marked the release of Nicole Fleetwood’s book, Marking Time (Harvard University Press), the result of a years-long look at art produced in the confines of incarceration. Fleetwood, the director of the Institute for...
Life Sentence,rob mclennanSpuyten Duyvil, 2019 Review by Margo LaPierre Life Sentence, (the unusual punctuation is deliberate, you’ll see) is a poetry collection that begins quietly, with much purpose, and picks up speed as it goes along like a river...
PRISM international stands in solidarity with Black communities across the United States, Canada, and beyond, in asserting that Black Lives Matter. We join them in demanding justice for the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Regis Korchinksi-Paquet, and countless...
Photo by Stephen DavisInterview by Kate Finegan The poems in Claire Caldwell’s second collection, Gold Rush (Invisible Publishing, 2020) have something in common with the wilderness—they beg to be revisited. They artfully layer and interrogate the concept of wilderness...
Introducing PRISM’s 2020–21 editorial team! We’re working from home (can you tell?) and we look forward to bringing you all the best, most exciting new writing from Canada and abroad. From our beds to yours! Tanvi Bhatia—Content Editor, Prose...
Familiar FaceMichael DeForgeDrawn & Quarterly, 2020 Review by Kris Rothstein A time of isolation. Bodies beyond our control. Unprecedented control by the state. As we live through a global pandemic, it is tempting to look to art for extra...
The Baudelaire FractalLisa RobertsonCoach House, 2020 Review by Margaryta Golovchenko Sitting in the packed atrium of the MOCA for the launch of The Baudelaire Fractal (Coach House, 2020) as Lisa Robertson discusses history and legacy, I recall the words...
