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Winter 2022-23, Volume 43, No. 4

Our winter issue features Tolu Oloruntoba's Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture "“What have we left to us?” Examining Questions as a Means of Existential Analysis in Poetry" as well as new writing from Beth Goobie, rob mclennan, Su Croll, Taidgh Lynch & more!

Call for Submissions: HAUNTED: Things That Keep You Up At Night

This fall, Prairie Fire is taking a deep dive into what haunts us. What keeps you up at night? Is it thoughts of regret about what you did or didn’t do, said or didn’t say, the risks you didn’t take? Or, maybe the pain of the past comes to visit, specters of history...

Happy World Poetry Day!

Happy World Poetry Day, everyone! To celebrate, we have a poem from our 2022 McNally Robinson Booksellers Poetry Award Winner Jody Baltessen! Thank you Jody, for allowing us to publish this fabulous poem digitally for World Poetry Day! Before we get to the poem, if...

Congratulations to Jasmine Sealy & Zilla Jones for Journey Prize Wins!

We would like to give a huge congratulations to Jasmine Sealy & Zilla Jones on their Journey Prize wins! Jasmine won for her contest-winning piece "Caves" (which can be found in Prairie Fire issue 42.2), along with the poem "Collapse" which appeared in Room...

2022 Contest Winners Announced!

We have our winners! Thank you to everyone who entered! To see the winners, click here.
Earle Street: Poems by Arleen Paré

Earle Street: Poems by Arleen Paré

            In Earle Street: Poems, Arleen Paré digs into the infrastructure of place. Unearths for us the very foundations of urban life. As if to say “Look! This is who we are”. Not simply people inside buildings. But storm drains and catch basins, trees and their...

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Call for Submissions: HAUNTED: Things That Keep You Up At Night

This fall, Prairie Fire is taking a deep dive into what haunts us. What keeps you up at night? Is it thoughts of regret about what you did or didn’t do, said or didn’t say, the risks you didn’t take? Or, maybe the pain of the past comes to visit, specters of history...

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Happy World Poetry Day!

Happy World Poetry Day, everyone! To celebrate, we have a poem from our 2022 McNally Robinson Booksellers Poetry Award Winner Jody Baltessen! Thank you Jody, for allowing us to publish this fabulous poem digitally for World Poetry Day! Before we get to the poem, if...

read more