The Missouri Review

If you are in Columbia, swing by tonight and check out a reading by two fantastic poets: TMR’s own Marc McKee and TMR alum Jason Koo.  Sponsored by Center: A Journal of Literary Arts (another fine journal here at the University of Missouri; their Symposium’s are must reads), the reading will be from 7 to [...]

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As election season draws to a close with the now customary fits and starts of provisional ballot counting, run-offs, etc., we thought we’d take a look at some of our favorite politicians from literature. Prince or puppet-master, tyrant or revolutionary, the figure of the politician is a canvas upon which we can project our fondest [...]

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The Missouri Review has a long history of sending our former interns into the world of publishing. Jason Koo, our former poetry editor, becomes our latest flag bearer into the literary magazine world. He and friends Bill Hughes, Robert Liddell, and Jeff Bernard have just launched Low Rent magazine. Check it out at www.lowrentmagazine.com.

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You can now listen to our interview with poet Derek Mong, who chats with Poetry Editor Jason Koo about classical influences and the stories behind some of his poetry. Derek Mong is the winner of The Missouri Review’s 2006 Editor’s Prize for Poetry. You can get the MP3 file of this interview directly from us [...]

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Our forthcoming issue (29:1) features the winners of our annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. As part of the celebration, we were able to bring two of the three winners to Columbia for a reading and reception in late April. Our poetry editor, Jason Koo, spoke with Derek Mong, [...]

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Stephanie Carpenter; Speer Morgan; Edward Falco, author of Sabbath Night in the Church of the Pirhana; Greg Michaelson, Unbridled Books Thank you to all of those who stopped by our bookfair table at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) Conference in Austin, Texas, earlier this month. We gave away several hundred copies of [...]

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Jason Koo, newly appointed Poetry Editor of the Missouri Review, examines Bachelard’s Poetics of Space in a web-exclusive piece, “In Defense of Daydreaming: Bachelard’s Poetics of Space.” Koo writes, “I love the title of this book, but it could easily be retitled, In Defense of Daydreaming. Bachelard argues for a certain kind of reading (one [...]

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[By Jason Koo] Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space is a book that has had my name written all over it for the past four of five years—during which time I was somehow not reading it, to my extreme detriment. How does one not read this book? One does things like watching Extreme Dating and eating [...]

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As part of its “College Week,” Slate asked a handful of journalists, celebrities, CEOs, professors, writers, and editors, “What’s the most influential book you read in college?” Among the respondents were James Fallow, Nicholson Baker, Mark Cuban, David Brooks, Gish Jen, Chris Matthews, Bill Simmons, and Daphne Merkin. Among the answers were The Fountainhead, The [...]

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The winners of the Pulitzer Prize for 2005 have been announced with Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), selected in fiction, and Ted Kooser’s Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon Press) chosen in poetry. Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. She is also the author of two books [...]

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What inspires devotion? Who inspires devotion? Jason Koo, a poet, Ph.D. student in English and creative writing, and an advisor at the Missouri Review, considers this question in his web-exclusive, “Devotion in the Age of Larry Levis.” “The devotion Levis inspires in his readers is important—it is on the level of that inspired by a [...]

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Jason Koo, a member of TMR’s poetry staff and a doctoral student in poetry at the University of Missouri, considers the poet Czeslaw Milosz’s later work, as well as his crucial role in twentieth-century poetry, in this TMR web-exclusive.

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