Melissa Broder: “Mercy”

This week we’re serving up a new poem by Melissa Broder. Broder is the author of two collections of poems, most recently Meat Heart. Poems appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Redivider, Court Green, Drunken Boat, Barrelhouse, The Awl, et al. She edits La Petite …

Thomas Heise: from “Moth; or how I came to be with you again”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our brand new issue by Thomas Heise. Heise is the author of two books, Horror Vacui: Poems (Sarabande, 2006) and Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (Rutgers University Press, …

Katie Chaple: “Mapping the Heart”

This week we’re featuring a poem by Katie Chaple, from her just-out first book Pretty Little Rooms (Press 53). Chaple teaches poetry and writing at the University of West Georgia and edits Terminus Magazine. Her work has appeared or is …

Monica Ferrell: “Planet”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our brand new issue, Winter 2011, 34.4. Monica Ferrell is the author of a collection of poems, Beasts for the Chase, which won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was published by Sarabande …

Davis McCombs: “Biomass: A Genealogy”

This week we’re thrilled to feature a new poem by Davis McCombs. McCombs directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas. His first book, Ultima Thule, was chosen by W. S. Merwin for the 1999 Yale Series of …

Richie Hofmann: “Sea Interlude: Dawn”

We’re thrilled to kick off 2012 with a poem by Richie Hofmann from our new issue, 34.4, which just arrived in our offices. Richie Hofmann was born in 1987.  His poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Antioch Review, Southwest …

Kerry Carnahan: “Cello”

This week we feature a previously unpublished poem by Kerry Carnahan. Carnahan was born in Kansas, lives in Brooklyn, and works in a converted Chiclets factory. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review and North Dakota Quarterly. Author’s Note: …

Victoria Chang: “Edward Hopper’s Conference at Night”

This week we are thrilled to feature a previously unpublished poem by Victoria Chang. Chang’s first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Review Award Series in Poetry and won the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and …

Taije Silverman: “Take It Everything”

This week we’re proud to present a previously unpublished poem by Taije Silverman. Silverman is the author of Houses Are Fields.  Her individual poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, Pleiades, The Harvard Review, and elsewhere.  She …

David Roderick: “Self-Portrait as David Bowie”

This week we’re proud to follow-up a Turkey-week hiatus with a previously unpublished poem by David Roderick. Roderick’s first book, Blue Colonial, won the APR/Honickman Prize.  Recently his poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Southern Review, Cave Wall, …

Jason Koo: “Work”

This week we serve up a previously unpublished poem by Jason Koo. Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island (C&R Press, 2009), winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Members’ Choice …

David Wagoner: “A Logical Proposition to His Coy Companion outside a Tropical Beach Cabana”

This week we’re excited to feature a poem by David Wagoner from our current issue, 34.3. Wagoner was born in eastern Ohio, grew up between Gary and Chicago, and has lived in or near Seattle since 1954. A professor of …

James Thomas Miller: “The Perfect Gift”

This week we’re proud to feature “The Perfect Gift,” a previously unpublished poem by James Thomas Miller. Miller is from Indianola, Mississippi. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Blackbird and various other journals. He received his MFA from SIU-Carbondale and …

Shara Lessley: “Test”

This week we’re proud to post Shara Lessley’s poem, “Test,” from our latest 34.3 issue. Lessley is a former Stegner Fellow. Her awards include an Artist Fellowship from the State of North Carolina, the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from the …

Paisley Rekdal: “A Hand”

Our feature this week is a previously unpublished poem by Paisley Rekdal called “A Hand.” Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee and three books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos, …

Amy Newman: “On Safari in the Serengeti with Her Husband Kayo, Anne Sexton Writes Letters to Her Therapist”

This week we are proud to feature a poem from the newly printed TMR 34.3: Amy Newman’s “On Safari in the Serengeti with Husband Kayo, Anne Sexton Writes Letters to Her Therapist.” Newman’s fourth book of poetry Dear Editor is …

Bruce Bond: “Volition”

This week we are proud to present a previously unpublished poem, “Volition,” by Bruce Bond. Bond’s most recent collections of poetry include Choir of the Wells (A trilogy of new books; Etruscan Press, forthcoming), The Visible (LSU, forthcoming), Peal (Etruscan, …

Darcie Dennigan: “The Atoll”

This week we’re proud to feature a new poem, “The Atoll,” by Darcie Dennigan. Dennigan is the author of Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse. She is an associate editor at H_NGM_N and a poet in residence at UConn. She lives in …

Steve Gehrke: “Prologue, Epilogue”

This week we are proud to feature a poem from our latest issue, 34.2: Steve Gehrke’s “Prologue, Epilogue.” Gehrke has published three book, most recently Michelangelo’s Seizure, which was selected for the National Poetry Series and published by University of …

MRB Chelko: from “MANHATTATIONS”

This week we are proud to feature MRB Chelko’s [rain pours on the unsold umbrellas] from the series “MANHATTATIONS.” This poem is previously unpublished. Chelko is a recent graduate of The University of New Hampshire’s MFA program and Assistant Editor …

Peter Jay Shippy: “Enchantment”

This week we are proud to feature “Enchantment” by Peter Jay Shippy. You can find the print version in our new issue, TMR 34:2, which debuted earlier this summer. Shippy is the author of Thieves’ Latin (University of Iowa Press, …

Chloe Honum: “Dress Rehearsal” & “My Great Aunt Billie, at 92″

This week we are featuring two poems by Chloe Honum: “Dress Rehearsal” and “My Great Aunt Billie, at 92.”   The poem “Dress Rehearsal” originally appeared in Poetry Magazine in November 2009, as one of a selection of poems that garnered …

Nadine Sabra Meyer: “Invocation: A Fragment”

This week we are proud to feature “Invocation: A Fragment” by Nadine Sabra Meyer. You can find the print version in our current issue, TMR 34:1 (though you might want to hurry, since our new issue drops very soon!). Meyer …

Alexandra Teague: “Career Day”

This week we are proud to feature “Career Day” by Alexandra Teague. The poem is previously unpublished. Alexandra Teague’s first book of poetry, Mortal Geography, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and was published by Persea Books in 2010. Her poetry …

Josh Booton: “Sketch with Yellow Asterisk”

This week we are proud to feature Josh Booton’s “Sketch with Yellow Asterisk.”  The poem appears in our current issue, TMR 34:1.  Josh Booton is a James A. Michener Fellow in poetry at the University of Texas-Austin. His poems have …

Josh Kryah: “the day without before this without”

This week we are delighted to feature “the day without before this without” by Joshua Kryah.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Kryah’s first collection of poems, GLEAN (2007), won the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize. His second, WE ARE STARVED, will …

Jessica Piazza: “Achluophilia”

This week we are proud to feature “Achluophilia” by Jessica Piazza.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Jessica Piazza was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University …

George Looney: “To Account for Such Grace”

This week we’re proud to feature “To Account for Such Grace” by George Looney, winner of the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in poetry.  The poem is published in our current issue, TMR 34:1. George Looney’s most recent book isOpen …

Micah Bateman: “Homecoming”

This week we are delighted to feature “Homecoming” by Micah Bateman.  The poem is previously unpublished. Micah Bateman grew up in Jacksonville, Texas, and lives with his wife Andrea in Iowa City where he studies and teaches. He can be …

Cynthia Marie Hoffman: “At Twenty Minutes Past Twelve by a Clock in the Queen’s Apartment I Commenced to Give a Little Chloroform”

This week we are proud to feature “At Twenty Minutes Past Twelve by a Clock in the Queen’s Apartment I Commenced to Give a Little Chloroform” by Cynthia Marie Hoffman.  Hoffman is the author of Sightseer, winner of the 2010 …

Maria Hummel: “Twelve Red Seeds”

This week we are proud to feature “Twelve Red Seeds” by Maria Hummel.  The poem is published in our current issue, TMR 33:4.  Maria Hummel is the author of the novelWilderness Run (St. Martin’s Press, 2002) and recent poetry, fiction, and …

Tarfia Faizullah: “Poetry Recitation at St. Catherine’s School for Girls”

This week we are proud to feature Tarfia Faizullah’s ”Poetry Recitation at St. Catherine’s School for Girls,” which appears in our latest issue, TMR 33:4.  Tarfia Faizullah’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, diode, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She is the recipient …

Steven Lance: “South Dakota”

This week we are delighted to feature Steven Lance’s poem “South Dakota.”  The poem is previously unpublished.  Steven Lance graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009.  Since then, he has been driving around the country, teaching creative writing and ESL, writing press releases …

Julie Moore: “Recovery”

This week we are delighted to feature “Recovery” by Julie L. Moore.  The poem is previously unpublished. Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom, published last year by WordTech Editions, and the chapbook, Election Day (Finishing …

Julie Moore: “Recovery”

This week we are delighted to feature “Recovery” by Julie L. Moore. The poem is previously unpublished. Julie L. Moore is the author of Slipping Out of Bloom, published last year by WordTech Editions, and the chapbook, Election Day (Finishing …

Danielle Cadena Deulen: “Corrida de Toros”

This week we are proud to feature“Corrida de Toros” by Danielle Cadena Deulen, a poem from our current issue, TMR 33:3. Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. Her first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams Arkansas …

Arthur Vogelsang: “Changed My Mind”

This week we are delighted to feature“Changed My Mind,” by Arthur Vogelsang.  The poem is previously unpublished, but will soon be available as part of his latest collection Expedition: New & Selected Poems, due out from The Ashland Poetry Press in …

Ellen Dudis: “Double Take”

This week we are proud to feature “Double Take,” by Ellen Dudis.  The poem is previously unpublished. Dudis lives on a farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.  Her poems have appeared in many journals, literary magazines and anthologies, most recently Beyond Forgetting: …

Jason Koo: “Do You Hear Me, Poison Ivy?”

This week we are proud to feature “Do You Hear Me, Poison Ivy?” by Jason Koo. The poem is previously unpublished. Jason Koo is the author of Man on Extremely Small Island, winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize …

Maureen Seaton: “Metastasis”

This week we are proud to feature“Metastasis” by Maureen Seaton, a poem from our new issue, TMR 33:3. Maureen Seaton’s sixth solo book of poems is Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen. She authored a memoir, Sex Talks to Girls, winner of the …

Dore Kiesselbach: “Police”

This week we present a new poem by Dore Kiesselbach, “Police.” The poem is previously unpublished. Kiesselbach won Britain’s Bridport Prize in poetry last year. His work has appeared in magazines such as Antioch Review, FIELD and New Letters, and …

Jonathan Johnson: “To Whomever May Care for Me Dying”

This week, we present “To Whomever May Care for Me Dying” by Jonathan Johnson, which appeared in our Summer 2010 issue. Jonathan Johnson’s books include the poetry collections In the Land We Imagine Ourselves (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) and Mastodon, 80% …

John Evans: “Scale”

This week, we present “Scale” by John Evans, which is part of a sequence of poems appearing in the current issue of TMR (33.2). Evans is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where next fall he will be the …

Nick Courtright: “Goddess”

This week, we present Nick Courtright’s “Goddess.” His poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in The Southern Review, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, and The Kenyon Review Online, among numerous others, and a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife, is …

Kent Shaw: “Why you can’t build a city quite fast enough”

This week we are delighted to feature “Why you can’t build a city quite fast enough” by Kent Shaw. The poem is previously unpublished. Kent Shaw’s first book, Calenture, was published by University of Tampa Press in 2008. New work …

Benjamin Grossberg: “The Space Traveler and Wandering”

This week we are proud to feature a poem from our current issue (TMR 33:2), Benjamin Grossberg’s “The Space Traveler and Wandering.” Benjamin Grossberg’s books are Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007) and Sweet Core Orchard …

Sean Hill: “A Photograph Taken in Duluth”

Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an MFA from the University of Houston. He has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the …

Jaswinder Bolina: “Portrait of the Self”

This week we are happy to present Jaswinder Bolina’s “Portrait of the Self.” Bolina is the author of Carrier Wave, winner of the 2006 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His more recent work has appeared in AGNI online, Black Warrior Review, …

Anna Journey: “The Devil’s Apron”

This week, we are proud to present “The Devil’s Apron,” by Anna Journey. Journey is the author of the collection, If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry …

Bruce Cohen: “The World Haywire”

This week, we feature an unpublished poem by Bruce Cohen. Cohen’s poems have appeared in literary periodicals such as The Georgia Review, Ecotone, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner & The Southern Review, as well as being featured on Poetry Daily & …

Avery Slater: “Death in the Middle Kingdom”

This week, we present Avery Slater’s “Death in the Middle Kingdom” as Poem of the Week. Slater’s work appears in Slate, Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, The Journal, CutBank, Connecticut Review, Chelsea, Yemassee, Clackamas Literary Review, Permafrost, Cold Mountain …

Kerry Hardie: “Emigration Photo”

This week we feature another poem from TMR 33.1: Uncharted: “Emigration Photo,” by the Irish poet Kerry Hardie. She has published five collections of poetry with the Gallery Press, Ireland, the most recent of which is Only This Room, 2009. …

Sarah Blackman: “A Marriage Poem”

As we continue to celebrate the release of our Editor’s Prize issue, 33.1: Uncharted, this week we offer “A Marriage Poem” from Sarah Blackman, finalist for the 2010 Editor’s Prize in Poetry. Sarah Blackman is the director of creative writing …

Christina Hutchins: “Into your pocket”

For the next three weeks, we celebrate the arrival of our Editor’s Prize issue with poems from 33.1: Uncharted.  First up is “Into your pocket,” from the winner of our 2010 Editor’s Prize in Poetry, Christina Hutchins. Her work appears …

Eric Burger: “A Hanking”

This week, we feature a brand-new poem by Eric Burger. Burger was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He’s also a recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the …

Joe Osterhaus: “Eden”

This week, we gladly present Joe Osterhaus’ original poem “Eden.”  Osterhaus is the author of Radiance (Zoo Press) and The Domed Road (Graywolf Press, in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series). His work has appeared most recently in Slate, The Yale Review, andThe Swallow Anthology of …

John Casteen: “Bird-Teasing After The Hurricane”

This week, TMR is pleased to present “Bird-Teasing After the Hurricane,” new work by John Casteen.  His first book of poems, Free Union, was published in 2009 by The University of Georgia press.  New poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, and The Rumpus.  He teaches at Sweet Briar College, and …

Marcus Wicker: “Love Letter to Flavor Flav”

This week we are excited to present “Love Letter to Flavor Flav,” new work from Marcus Wicker.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in jubilat, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Harpur Palate, Rattle, Ninth Letter, Sou’Wester, DIAGRAM, and Anti-,among other journals. …

Daniel Anderson: “Provinces”

This time, our poem of the week is once again from our newest issue of TMR, and our poet is Daniel Anderson. Of “Provinces,” he writes: “Initially, I intended for “Provinces” to be a brief sketch about some kind of …

Richard Bausch: “Dream Poem 10″

This week, we happily feature another poem from our most recent issue, The Questionable Past (32.4): Richard Bausch’s “Dream Poem 10.” Richard Bausch is the author of eleven novels, seven volumes of stories, and, just out from LSU Press, a …

Mark Kraushaar: “Recent Cosmological Observations”

This week, we are happy to feature a poem from the most recent issue of TMR, “The Questionable Past” (32.4):  Mark Kraushaar’s “Recent Cosmological Observations.”  Kraushaar has new work appearing or forthcoming from Michigan Quarterly, Ploughshares, the Gettysburg Review and New Ohio Review and has been included …

Traci Brimhall: “Noli Me Tangere”

We are happy to present as this week’s poem Traci Brimhall’s “Noli Me Tangere,” from our issue Demons (32.3). Traci Brimhall has received the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Tennessee Williams …

Michelle Chan Brown: “Blind Date With My Father, 1976″

This week we present Michelle Chan Brown’s previously unpublished poem “Blind Date With My Father, 1976.” Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tampa Review, The Concher, KNOCK, textsound, Broken Bridge Review, Yemassee and others. She received her MFA from the …

Brian Swann: “The Procession”

This week we’re excited to feature a poem by Brian Swann from our most recent issue, Demons (32.3). Brian Swann has published many books in a number of genres, including seven books of poetry, such as Autumn Road (Ohio State …

Sally Keith: “Nervous Tic”

This week we’re proud to feature “Nervous Tic,” a previously unpublished poem by Sally Keith.  Design, her first book, won the 2000 Colorado Prize, judged by Allen Grossman.  Her second manuscript, Dwelling Song, was chosen for publication by Bin Ramke and Fanny …

Ellen Bass “Jazz”

This week we’re delighted to feature “Jazz” by Ellen Bass; the poem is published in our current issue TMR 32:2 (2009). Ellen Bass’s poetry books include The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press), named a Notable Book of 2007 by the …

Bronwen Butter Newcott: “Resistance”

This week we are proud to feature “Resistance” by Bronwen Butter Newcott.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Newcott’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, The Baltimore Review, Smartish Pace, The Portland Review, and elsewhere.  She grew up in Washington DC and currently lives …

Bob Hicok: “In the future, the future will be the past”

This week we are proud to feature “In the future, the future will be the past” by Bob Hicok, which is published in our more recent issue: TMR 32:2 (2009). Hicok’s This Clumsy Living received the Bobbitt Prize from the …

Franny Lindsay: “Ginny”

Frannie Lindsay is the winner of our Jeffrey E. Smith Prize in Poetry, and her work is featured in the latest issue of The Missouri Review (32:1).  Because most of the poems in the winning submission were elegies addressed to her sister, …

Lisa Williams: “Melt”

This week we are proud to feature “Melt” by Lisa Williams, which appears in the current issue of The Missouri Review (32:1, 2009). Lisa Williams is the author of two books of poems, Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton, …

This week we are proud to feature “Mr. Goat,” by Matthew Fluharty, who was a finalist for this year’s Jeffrey Smith Editor’s Prize in Poetry. The poem is previously unpublished. Fluharty’s poetry has appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The …

Jamie Thomas: “Migratory Patterns”

This week we’re proud to feature“Migratory Patterns” by Jamie Thomas.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Jamie Thomas is finishing a Ph. D. at the University of Houston and his recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Barrow Street, Rattle, …

Kerry Hardie: “Friendship”

This week we are proud to feature“Friendship,” by Kerry Hardie.  The poem is previously unpublished. It will appear in her new collection Only This Room (Gallery Press) in October 2009. Kerry Hardie was born in 1951 and lives in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Her publications include …

David Hernandez: “The Soldier Inside the Horse”

This week we’re proud to feature “The Soldier Inside the Horse” by David Hernandez, which originally appeared inTMR 28:1.  David Hernandez’s poetry collections include Always Danger(Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and A House Waiting for Music(Tupelo …

Khaled Mattawa: “East of Carthage”

This week we are delighted to present section 9 of the poem “East of Carthage” by Khaled Mattawa.  The poem first appeared in TMR 30:2 (2007).  Khaled Mattawa is the author of three books of poems:  Ismailia Eclipse, Zodiac of Echoesand Amorisco (in which …

Jillian Weise: “Katie Smoak”

This week we are proud to feature the poem “Katie Smoak” by Jillian Weise. It originally appeared in TMR 31:3 (2008). Jillian Weise is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull, 2007). She is an assistant professor …

Megan Snyder-Camp: “Middle Room”

This week we are proud to debut “Middle Room” by Megan Snyder-Camp.  The poem is previously unpublished.  Megan Snyder-Camp’s first collection of poetry,The Forest of Sure Things, won the 2008Crazyhorse/Tupelo Press First Book Award, and will be published in the …

Michael Collier: “The Heavy Light of Shifting Stars”

This week we are proud to feature “The Heavy Light of Shifting Stars” by Michael Collier, which originally appeared in TMR 12:1 (1989). Michael Collier is the author of five books of poetry: Dark Wild Realm (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), The …

Paisley Rekdal: “Why Some Girls Love Horses”

This week we’re proud to feature “Why Some Girls Love Horses” by Paisley Rekdal. The poem first appeared in TMR 31:2. Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon, 2000 …

Jenny Gillespie: “The feather itself is not alive”

This week we’re featuring “The feather itself is not alive,” by Jenny Gillespie.   The poem is previously unpublished.  Jenny Gillespie received her M.A. in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004.  Her work has been featured in Meridian, Borderlands,and Front …

David Wojahn: “Late Empire”

This week we’re featuring a poem from our archives: “Late Empire” by David Wojahn. It originally appeared in TMR 14:2. David Wojahn’s INTERROGATION PALACE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1982-2004, was a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of …

Catherine MacCarthy: “The Freedom of the City”

This week’s poem is “The Freedom of the City” by Catherine MacCarthy, which originally appeared in TMR 26:3 (2003).  MacCarthy has published three collections of poetry: This Hour of the Tide (Salmon, 1994); the blue globe (1998, Blackstaff Press), and Suntrap (2007, Blackstaff Press).  In addition …

Brian Brodeur: “Nietzsche in Love”

This week’s poem is “Nietzsche in Love” by Brian Brodeur.  It is previously unpublished.  Brodeur is the author of Other Latitudes (2008), winner of the University of Akron Press’s 2007 Akron Poetry Prize, judged by Stephen Dunn, and So the Night Cannot Go on …

Ellen Bass: “Gate C 22″

This week’s poem is “Gate C 22″ by Ellen Bass, which originally appeared in TMR 25:1 (2002).  Bass won our 2001 Editor’s Prize for her selection of poems. We’ve just extended our deadline for this year’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s …

Davis McCombs: “Tobacco Mosaic”

This week’s poem is “Rain Dog” by Davis McCombs, which originally appeared in TMR 28:1 (2005). The poem is one from a series titled Tobacco Mosaic” and was selected as the winner of our Larry Levis Poetry Prize in 2004. …

George Looney: “The Insistence of Water”

Our latest poem of the week is “The Insistence of Water” by the poet George Looney, the winner of our Larry Levis prize for poetry in 2002 (our current prize is called the Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize).   This poem …

Lynn Aarty Chandhok: “The Bandh”

This week’s poem is “The Bandh” by Lynn Aarti Chandhok, which appeared in TMR 28:3 (2005). Lynn Chandhok’s first book, The View from Zero Bridge, won the 2006 Philip Levine Prize and was published by Anhinga Press in October 2007. …

Jude Nutter: “The Insect Collector’s Demise”

This week’s poem is “The Insect Collector’s Demise” by Jude Nutter, which originally appeared in TMR 31:1 (2008) as our Editors’ Prize winner in poetry.  Jude Nutter’s first collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of Silence(University of …