Issue No. 1 - Summer 2025 - is here! Go to “Our Issues”! Submissions for Issue No. 2 - Winter 2026 — are NOW OPEN through Nov. 30, 2025. The Issue No. 2 prompt and theme is: Islands: Real, Imagined & Metaphoric. This is meant to be a broad prompt — poems about independence, isolation, resilience, nature, and singularity, for example, all might fit!

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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