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45.2 (Summer 2022): “Rescue Me”

Inside: New fiction from Caroline Casper, Sam Dunnington, Tim Erwin, Nur Kahn, and Amy Stuber. Essays by Christopher Kempf and Daniel J. Waters. Poetry from Davis McCombs, Kelan Nee, and… read more

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Featured Prose

Sep 07 2022

“The Cadence of Waves” by Trent Hudley

Each year, the Missouri Review honors one fiction writer from the previous volume year by awarding them the William Peden Prize in fiction, named in honor of the late William… read more

Poem of the Week

Sep 26 2022

“Sports Cards” by Jose Hernandez Diaz

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Sports Cards” by Jose Hernandez Diaz. Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of the chapbook, The… read more

Blast

Sep 16 2022

“Three Trees” by Sarah Gorham

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. In “Three Trees” essayist and poet Sarah Gorham gives us three… read more

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