Issue No. 3 (Summer 2026) is at the printer! Stand by for publication in August, in print & online. The theme is Buoyancy: Staying Afloat By Design, By Chance, By Perseverance. We are hosting a launch event & reading for PD3 at Riffraff Books in Providence, Rhode Island on Sunday, October 4, at 6pm. Join us!

Go to the Submit Your Poems tab to learn about how to be a part of Issue No. 4 (Winter 2027) … submissions will be open October 1 - November 30 … the prompt is Ephemera: Unintended Survival.

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

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