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Current Issue: 35.1 (Spring 2012)
Poem of the Week- David Kirby: “If Any Man Have an Ear, Let Him Listen”
- Larry Levis: “Labyrinth as the Erasure of Cries Heard Once Within It or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded. . .’ Later)”
- Amy Newman: “The Day After The Dean of Michigan State College Admits Him To Lansing Sparrow Hospital For Rest, A Naked Theodore Roethke Barricades Himself Behind A Hospital Mattress”
Author Archives: Dedra
Inside the Cartoonist's Studio
If you’re a fan of one of our favorite cartoonists–Mick Stevens–then you will enjoy reading his blog I Really Should Be Drawing. He discusses where he finds inspiration and a whole host of other things that fall this side of funny. You also can see more of Mick’s work in our newest issue–Vol. 30 #4.
Speer Morgan interviewed
If you were listening to Columbia’s NPR station last week and thought you heard Speer’s voice, you weren’t mistaken. Speer sat down to chat with Janet Saidi for Off the Clock, a local arts/culture program. Listen to the complete interview here.
Two of the best
When I was sorting through the mail last week shortly before leaving for Thanksgiving break I spied our copy of Best New Poets 2007. As I flipped through the pages two names stood out, so I wanted to take a moment to congratulate these individuals–Elizabeth Langemak and Brett Foster–both former TMR interns.
Good job and best wishes!
Thank you, thank you, thank you
At this time of year we are reminded to be thankful, so I decided to make a quick list of people and things we at The Missouri Review are thankful for.
Things we are thankful for (in no particular order):
The British Library, The Huntington and the HRC
Gutenberg
Independent Publishers
Readers everywhere
A staff of great interns and student assistants
Our Trust Fund board and donors
All people who support the arts as patrons and/or readers
Writers
All the people who took a chance and entered our Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize contest
First National Bank & Trust of Columbia
Jeffrey E. Smith
Really great new office space
TMR’s first successful year as a quarterly
Feel free to add to this list.
In Memoriam: Raymond J. Smith
With sadness we learned of Raymond J. Smith’s death this week. Smith, along with his wife of more than forty years, Joyce Carol Oates, was a founding editor of The Ontario Review and Ontario Review Press. He leaves a rich and distinguished contribution to literary publishing.
In the essay “On Editing The Ontario Review,” which originally appeared in The Art of Literary Publishing: Editors on Their Craft. Bill Henderson, ed. (Pushcart Press, 1980), Mr. Smith wrote, “I see editing a magazine not as compiling but creating, and the finished product as a work of art in its own right…”