Welcome to the Autumn issue of The Prairie Review! 

 

We are in the fifth year of publication, and I am deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to the literary and artistic enrichment of the magazine over the years. We started as an experiment, and I hope that we continue in the experimental mindset, ever open to new creative ideas and initiatives for more years to come.

 

As always, I would like to acknowledge and thank every contributor to this issue of The Prairie Review. I am always edified by the diversity and inventiveness of grassroots work. And the correspondence I receive after every published issue confirms that others are inspired as well.

 

Readers, please take your time with the poetry and art. Enjoy appreciating work of your peers and friends. Know that you too are a part of this creative fellowship, whether we met in person at one of the events or online for a zoom conversation about art and poetry.

 

The poetry album recorded by several members of the poetry group will be available to download in the early Spring of next year. We are also going to publish a chapbook with the poems that appear on the album. As for The Prairie Review, I approached a couple of writers to contribute series about their poetics research to the upcoming 4 issues—so for the entire 2026. This means expanded prose and critical content which I hope everyone will enjoy reading.

 

Kinga Lipinska

Editor