
Letter from the Editor
Welcome to the 12th issue of The Prairie Review – a magazine for poets, writers, art makers, creatives, and culture critics from global grassroots. This issue features works of talent from Australia, Asia, UK, the States.
I am immensely grateful to all writers and visual artists who submitted their work. Without their / your contributions, the magazine would remain only an idea. Because of their / your generosity, it is a presence and a substantial account of what we feel, think, and transform into art both locally here in Chicago and from various places around the world. The connection is real and downright miraculous.
In the United States, early November has been a sad and shocking awakening to the political realities that have the power to so impact our lives and yet seem so remote from the way we would like the world to be. Stay strong! Politics is large. Art is greater.
We continue with live poetry events in Chicago and online community discussions and meetings. The magazine continues, and it is my hope to keep building the community around the Poetry Meetup and all its activities in the coming year. We choose to stay strong, alive, and creative.
Keep making art, keep writing poems!
Kinga Lipinska
Editor