The Missouri Review

Beginning tomorrow, The Missouri Review will feature a weekly poem online. Each poem will be selected from a previous issue or submissions by new contributors. Poetry submissions to the magazine will now be considered both for the print journal and the website. Once posted, the Poem of the Week will remain on the main page for a week; it will then be stored in an archive.

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Davis McCombs, whose “Tobacco Mosaic” sequence won our Larry Levis Prize in 2004 (The Missouri Review, Vol. 28, No. 1), has won the 2005 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize of $10,000 for his second book, Dismal Rock, selected by Linda Gregerson. “Tobacco Mosaic” comprises a major part of his new book. David Roderick, whose “The Good [...]

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I had a great time at AWP this year. Usually AWP makes me feel as if I’ve stumbled into purgatory, but this year I met some people who really touched me. Derek Mong, our young contest winner, came up and introduced himself at our table, and I discovered that he grew up in my hometown [...]

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For the past few months I’ve been reading A Condition of the Spirit: the Life and Work of Larry Levis, a compendium of essays, reviews, reminiscences and critical articles written both by and about Larry Levis. It is an incredible book, simply for the devotion it shows to this poet whom most Americans have never [...]

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American poets James Schuyler and Larry Levis were both overlooked and underrated throughout their careers, and, while appreciation for their work has grown since their deaths in the 90′s, their names are still largely unknown to the general reading public. Hopefully, the release of two books will help to correct this situation and bring proper [...]

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It is still hard for me to believe that Milosz is dead. I know he was 93, but his age, so far from being an indication that he would die soon, seemed rather proof of his invincibility. No poets, I thought, lived into their nineties—and if they did, they certainly weren’t productive. One could be [...]

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Sending out poems for the first time? Tired of flipping through Poets’ Market looking for addresses and editors’ names? Poet Jeffery Bahr’s website provides an incredible (and downright obsessive) resource for print journal submission. Once there you’ll find a nine-page table listing virtually every print journal of repute in the country, along with website links, [...]

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Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for literature and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth-century, died at his home in Krakow on August 14. When asked for a cause of death, Milosz’s assistant Agnieszka Kosinska replied, “It’s death, simply death. It was his time–he was 93.” Still, Milosz’s death [...]

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