Category Archives: Poem of the Week
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This week we feature a previously unpublished poem by Kerry Carnahan.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This week we are thrilled to feature a previously unpublished poem by Victoria Chang.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This week we’re proud to present a previously unpublished poem by Taije Silverman.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 …
Latest Issues
34.4 (Winter 2011): “Weird”
Featuring work by Mia Alvar, Beth Cranwell Aplin, Monica Ferrell, Christa Fraser, Thomas Heise, Richie Hofmann, Luke Mogelson, Kent Nelson, and Thomas Swick… as well as a look at the life and work of Sarah Bernhardt and a conversation with China Miéville.
34.3 (Fall 2011): “Legacy”
Featuring work by Stephanie DeGhett, Jerry Gabriel, Kerry Hardie, Burt Kimmelman, Peter LaSalle, Shara Lessley, Amy Newman, Iraj Isaac Rahmim, and David Wagoner… and an interview with Dan Chaon. Purchase a copy of this issue.
34.2 (Summer 2011): “Significant Other”
Featuring work by Amin Ahmad, Daniel Anderson, Tom Barbash, John W. Evans, Elisabeth Fairchild, Steve Gehrke, Arna Bontemps Hemenway, A.R. Rea, Diane Seuss, Peter Jay Shippy… a look at the art of Kazimir Malevich… and an interview with Brian Turner. This …
34.1 (Spring 2011): “Peril”
Featuring the winners of the 2010 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and work by Patricia Bjorklund, Josh Booton, Sarah Cornwell, Jennifer duBois, Erin Flanagan, Nadine Sabra Meyer, Molly Schultz… and an interview with Jo Ann Beard.
33.4 (Winter 2010): “Blindsided”
Featuring work by Brian Brodeur, Tarfia Faizullah, Carol Ghiglieri, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Maria Hummel, Adam Krause, Jennie Lin, Daniel Mueller, Danielle Ofri, and Daniel Stolar …and an interview with Michael Byers.
33.3 (Fall 2010): Shadows
Featuring work by Danielle Cadena Deulen, Susan Ford, Paul Guest, Dionne Irving, Thomas Larson, Tien-Yi Lee, Maureen Seaton, R.T. Smith, Christopher Wall, Michael White… as well as a look at the art of Francesca Woodman and an interview with Aimee …
33.2 (Summer 2010): “Crash”
Featuring work by M.C. Armstrong, John W. Evans, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Becky Adnot Haynes, Nathan Hogan, Jonathan Johnson, Devin Murphy, Wade Ostrowski, Sharon Solwitz… and an interview with Natasha Trethewey.
33.1 (Spring 2010): “Uncharted”
Featuring the winners of the 2010 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, and work by Sarah Blackman, May-lee Chai, Kerry Hardie, Tom Ireland, Reese Okyong Kwon, Rachel Riederer, Diane Simmons, Jonathan Starke… and an interview with Robert Wrigley.
32.4 (Winter 2009): “A Questionable Past”
Featuring work by Daniel Anderson, Richard Bausch, Andrew D. Cohen, Elise Juska, Mark Kraushaar, Tsung-yan Kwong, Julyan G. Peard, Maggie Shipstead, M.G. Stephens, and an interview with Pattiann Rogers.
32.3 (Fall 2009): “Demons”
Featuring work by Traci Brimhall, Lucy Ferriss, Karl Taro Greenfeld, Roberta Kalechofsky, Sally Keith, Eleanor Lerman, Kent Nelson, Jeffrey Schultz, Brian Swann, Ron Tanner and an interview with Aleksandar Hemon.






























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