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41.4 (Winter 2019): “Influencers”

Featuring the prose of A.A. Balaskovits, Bradley Bazzle, Ed Falco, Peter Gordon, Susan Kellam, Dennis McFadden, Jillian Weiss. New poetry by Miho Nonaka, Catherine Pierce, Brian Swann.

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Mar 08 2019

Interview with 2019 Miller Audio Prize Guest Judge Cher Vincent

Our guest judge this year, Cher Vincent (she/her), is an audio producer based in Chicago. She is currently Lead Audio Producer for One Illinois, a nonprofit news outlet, covering statewide news and producing… read more

Poem of the Week

Apr 15 2019

“Blue Heron” Sjohnna McCray

This week we are delighted to present “Blue Heron,” a new poem by Sjohnna McCray. Sjohnna McCray is the author of Rapture, winner of the 2015 Walt Whitman Award of… read more

Blast

Mar 14 2019

BLAST: “Avenge Me on the French” by Gary Pedler

Welcome to the first installment of BLAST, TMR‘s new online-only prose “anthology,” featuring fiction and nonfiction too impetuous and diverting to be confined between the covers of a journal. The… read more

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