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42.3 (Fall 2019): “Luminous Road”

Inside: First fiction by Frederick Hampton and Kathryn Nuernberger on “radical research” in recent books of poetry. Featuring Jacob M. Appel, Jason Brown, Carol D. Guerrero-Murphy, Kathryn Hunt, Frank Montesonti,… read more

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Featured Prose

Oct 28 2019

“Ordinary Time” by Carolyn Ogburn

This 2019 Peden Prize-winning story captures universal themes of grief, sacrifice, misunderstanding, and moving forward. A man in the middle of his life confronts the memory of a man at… read more

Poem of the Week

Nov 11 2019

Stevie Edwards “Window Shopping”

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Window Shopping” by Stevie Edwards! Stevie Edwards is author of two poetry collections, Good Grief (Write Bloody 2012) and Humanly (Small Doggies 2015),… read more

Blast

Oct 10 2019

“Two Kitchens” by Camille Jacobson

BLAST, TMR‘s new online-only prose “anthology,” features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a journal. In this fourth selection, Camille Jacobson combines heartfelt memories and… read more

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