We’ve closed the submission window for Issue No. 3 - Summer 2026. We’re now reviewing the over 1000 poems submitted — thank you to everyone who send us their work! We’ll be making decisions this month and moving ahead to publishing the issue soon, themed: Buoyancy: Staying Afloat By Design, By Chance, By Perseverance.

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

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

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

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