Issue No. 2 is now available online! Click the “Our Issues” tab. Print version to follow shortly.

Thanks to everyone who joined as for our Issue No. 2 launch event at Riffraff Books in Providence, Rhode Island on March 8, and especially to Riffraff for hosting! Print copies of Issue No. 2 (and No. 1) are available at Riffraff now and will be in other bookshops soon.

Or, order a print copy of Issue No. 1 or Issue No. 2 for $10 plus shipping by emailing us at prudencedispatch@gmail.com.

The submissions window for Issue No. 3 - Summer 2026 - will be open April 1-May 31, 2026. The prompt for Issue No. 3 is: Buoyancy: Staying Afloat By Design, By Chance, By Perseverance. Go to our Submit Your Poems tab for more details.

Prudence Dispatch is a semi-annual journal of poetry published from Prudence Island - Chippaquasett - in the center of Narragansett Bay.

Published by

George W. Shuster, Jr.

Greta B. Shuster

Georgia Hope Shuster

Copy Editor: Stephanie L. Van Patten