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45.1 (Spring 2022): “Now and Forever”

Inside: 2021 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize winners, Michael Millner on the Jack Kerouac Archive, poetry from Kelli Russell Agodon and David Moolten, prose from Joy Baglio, John Fulton, Peter… read more

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Featured Prose

Apr 25 2022

“Facing It” by Sally Crossley

“Facing It,” a vivid, wise, and moving account of living with Bell’s palsy, was the inaugural nonfiction winner in our annual Perkoff Prize competition for writing about health and medicine.… read more

Poem of the Week

May 23 2022

“Things Exposed to the Air” by Claire Wahmanholm

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Things Exposed to the Air” by Claire Wahmanholm. Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Night Vision (New Michigan Press 2017), Wilder (Milkweed Editions… read more

Blast

May 13 2022

“The Witches of Detroit” by Maureen Aitken

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. In her story “The Witches of Detroit” Maureen Aitken examines family… read more

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