We’ve selected around 50 poems from the over 1000 submissions received for Issue No. 3 (Summer 2026), and we’re moving ahead to publishing the issue soon, themed: Buoyancy: Staying Afloat By Design, By Chance, By Perseverance.

Look for us at the Book Around Summer Book Festival on July 11, 2026 at Hope Artiste Village in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Issue No. 1 (Summer 2025) & Issue No. 2 (Winter 2026) are available online! Click the “Our Issues” tab.

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

Copy Editor: Stephanie L. Van Patten