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Kathy Song: “Stamp Collecting”
May 14, 2013
This week we’ve dug up a fine poem, Kathy Song’s “Stamp Collecting.” This poem dates back to 1989, TMR issue 12.1. Song was born and raised in Hawaii, and after traveling and studying extensively abroad, resides there again. She is …
Aaron Belz: “Charmed”
May 7, 2013
This week we’re featuring a poem from our new spring Editor’s Prize issue, 36.1, “the ladder” issue. Aaron Belz lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and teaches at Durham Technical Community College. He’s published two books of poetry, The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007) …
Brockenbrough Lamb: “The Bourbon Peace”
April 30, 2013
This week we’re publishing a new poem by Brockenbrough Lamb. Brokie is a native of Richmond, Virginia, a rare book collector and owner of Libbie Books in Richmond’s west side. Author’s Statement: I’m from Richmond, Virginia where reminders of the Civil …
Darren Morris: “Fear of the Either/Or”
April 23, 2013
This week we’re featuring a poem from our brand new “ladder” issue, the Spring Editor’s Prize 36.1. Darren Morris’s poems have appeared in journals including The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, 32 Poems, Tongue: A Journal of Writing and Art, …
Ai: “The Journalist”
April 16, 2013
This week we’re featuring a poem from the TMR archives, Ai’s masterwork, “The Journalist.” The poem appeared in issue 9.1, published in 1986. Ai, who died in 2010, had an illustrious career beginning in the early ’70s. She is known …
Katie Bickham: “Widow’s Walk, 1917″
April 9, 2013
This week we’re featuring a poem by Katie Bickham, winner of this year’s Editor’s Prize. The poem features in our brand new Editor’s Prize spring issue, 35.5 (the ladder issue). Katie Bickham was born and raised in the Deep South …
Kerry Hardie: “Report”
April 2, 2013
This week we’re featuring a new poem by Kerry Hardie. Kerry Hardie lives in County Kilkenny, Ireland. She has published six full collections of poetry with The Gallery Press (Ireland), her most recent being The Ash and the Oak and …
Peter Cooley: “Portrait of Adam in Landscape with Swine”
March 19, 2013
This week we’re featuring a poem from our current “Moonhead issue,” 35.5. Peter Cooley’s ninth book Night Bus to the Afterlife will be published in 2013 by Carnegie Mellon University Press, which has published seven of his previous volumes. The recent …
Michael S. Harper: “Négritude: A Poem Written When Everything Else Fails to Translate”
March 12, 2013
This week, March 14-15, the English Department at The University of Missouri–Columbia, in conjunction with Cave Canem Foundation, is hosting a three-day academic symposium that celebrates and explores the multi-faceted contributions of Michael S. Harper. Scholars, poets, and jazz musicians …
Jake Adam York: “Calendar Days”
March 4, 2013
This week of AWP we’re painfully honored to publish a new poem by the late Jake Adam York. An amazing talent and advocate of poetry, Jake passed away in December. Among many other commitments, he taught creative writing at UC …
R.T. Smith: “Summoning Shades”
February 26, 2013
In the wake of Lincoln‘s big night at the Oscars and of our new issue 35.4 hitting the stands, this week we’re featuring a poem from the new issue by R.T. Smith, part of a Mary Todd Lincoln triptych. Smith is Writer-in-Residence …
Jorie Graham: “Salmon”
February 19, 2013
This week we’ve recovered a golden oldie by the esteemed Jorie Graham. Graham is the award-winning author of numerous collections of poetry spanning back to the early eighties (this is from TMR 6:1, Fall ’82). “Salmon” appeared in her second …
George David Clark: “Reveille with Lullabies”
February 12, 2013
This week we’re publishing a new poem by George David Clark. Clark has held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Poetry at Colgate University and is currently a Lilly Postdoctorate Fellow at Valparaiso University. This winter his poems can be …
Justin Gardiner: “Naming the Lifeboat”
February 5, 2013
This week we’re christening our brand-spanking new winter “Moonhead” issue 35.4 with a poem from Justin Gardiner’s feature. Gardiner is the 2012 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Fellow, sponsored by PEN Northwest. He is also the recipient of the 2012 Larry …
James Galvin: “A Poem from the Edge of America”
January 29, 2013
This week we’ve dug up a James Galvin poem from the early days of TMR, 1982, to be exact, issue 6:1. Much of Galvin’s work concerns the ecology of the great west, including Wyoming, where he ranches. A teacher at …
Alex Lemon: “I Knew You Before You Were”
January 22, 2013
This week we’re kicking off the new semester with a new doozy by Alex Lemon. Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir and three collections of poetry: Mosquito, Hallelujah Blackout, and Fancy Beasts. A fourth collection is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He lives in …
Margaree Little: “What Was Missing”
December 18, 2012
This week we’re featuring another poem from our brand-spanking-new “German Shepherd” issue, Fall 2012, 35.3. Margaree Little’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Bloom, and Beloit Poetry Journal. She is a recent graduate of the …
Kwame Dawes: “Stop Time”
December 4, 2012
This week we’re going to let Kwame Dawes raise the hymn with a new poem. A Ghanaian-born Jamaican, Dawes is the award-winning author of sixteen books of poetry (most recently, Wheels, 2011) and numerous books of fiction, non-fiction, criticism and drama. …
Tryfon Tolides: “From ‘Standards in Norway’”
November 27, 2012
This week we’re celebrating our brand-new Fall “German Shepherd” issue, 35.3, with a wonderful poem from its pages by Tryfon Tolides. Tolides was born in Korifi Voiou, Greece. His first book, An Almost Empty Walking, was a 2005 National Poetry Series …
Mary Ruefle: “True to Life Also”
November 13, 2012
This week we’ve dug up a haunting lyric by acclaimed American poet, essayist and professor, Mary Ruefle. This poem dates back to 1982, the “blackberry” issue 5.3. Ruefle has won many major awards and fellowships. Her most recent poetry collection is Selected …
Kathryn Maris: “Knowledge is a Good Thing”
November 6, 2012
This week we’re featuring a new poem by Kathryn Maris. Maris is from New York City. She has won a Pushcart Prize, an Academy of American Poets award and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and Yaddo. …
Michael S. Harper: “Zimmerhouse”
October 30, 2012
This week we’re going to let Michael S. Harper show us how it’s done. This poem dates back to 1985, TMR issue 8.2. Harper has been a major voice in American poetry, and a widely influential teacher at Brown University, since the …
Ruth Awad: “Sūrat al-Qiyāma: My Father Talks to God When Syria Invades Tripoli, 1976″
October 23, 2012
This week we’re featuring a new poem by Ruth Awad. Awad holds an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Republic, Anti-, Copper Nickel, RHINO, and elsewhere. She loves her …
Brenda Hillman: “The Goats”
October 16, 2012
This week we’ve dug up a TMR classic by Brenda Hillman. We published this poem back in ’88, issue 11.1. Hillman has described her work as “interested in the presence of spirit in matter and in how to have joy in a …
Philip White: “Underwing”
October 9, 2012
This week we’re featuring a new poem by Philip White. White’s poems have won a Pushcart Prize and have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, Cincinnati Review, Agni, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. His book, The Clearing, won …