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44.2 (Summer 2021): “Moving On”

Inside: First fiction by Danica Li. Alex Ramirez on boxing, defeat, and Diego Corrales. Poetry by Bruce Campbell, Tiana Clark, V. Penelope Pelizzon, and Nancy Reddy. Stories by Samantha Xiao… read more

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Featured Prose

Jul 08 2021

“Keeping” by Thomas Dodson

Thomas Dodson’s story “Keeping” follows seventy-three-year-old Guy, owner of a family hive and honey business, and his neighbor, Taylor, as they make the long journey from Iowa to California to… read more

Poem of the Week

Sep 20 2021

“Nightblooming Cereus” Alicia Mountain

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Nightblooming Cereus” by Alicia Mountain! Alicia Mountain is the author of High Ground Coward (Iowa, 2018), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her… read more

Blast

Sep 15 2021

“On Voice” by Amitava Kumar

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a print journal. In his craft essay “On Voice,” Amitava Kumar explores… read more

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