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

We are hosting a launch event for Issue No. 2 at Riffraff Books in Providence, Rhode Island on March 8, 2026, at 6pm — six of our poets from Issue No. 2 will read and copies of Issue No. 2 will be available for purchase!

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 an intermittent 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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