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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 This poem is previously unpublished.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 The poem is previously unpublished.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 The poem is previously unpublished.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 The poem is previously unpublished.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 …
Latest Issues
35.1 (Spring 2012): “Blood Relations”
Featuring the winners of the 2011 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize, as well as work by Steve Gehrke, Jessica Francis Kane, Thomas Pierce, Mark Wunderlich, Mako Yoshikawa, and Dave Zoby… and an interview with David Milch.
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.
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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. This issue is sold out!
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.