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This week’s Poem of the Week is “G.A.P: You Dropped a Bomb on Me” by Clemonce Heard. Heard was a finalist for Missouri Review’s 2019 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize.…    read more

In the spirit of Valentine’s Week (and romance in general) we bring you Ed Falco’s story “Balls,” from TMR 41:4, an utterly winning fiction that reminds us of how, even…    read more

This week on The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, we’re sharing the first installment of a new series of recordings from literary events in Columbia, Missouri. With this series, we hope…    read more

“One day we are all capable of doing nice things, and the next day we can be horrible. And we are both.” On this episode of The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth…    read more

This week we present “What It’s Like to Fall In Love” a new poem by Heidi Seaborn. Heidi Seaborn is Poetry Editor for The Adroit Journal, a New York University…    read more

Claire O’Connor, 2018 Miller Audio Prize Winner in our Prose category, was too! The 2019 Miller Audio Prize is open until March 15, so you’ve got time to turn your written…    read more

This week we present “Swarm Migration” a new poem by Luisa A. Igloria. Luisa A. Igloria is the winner of the 2015 Resurgence Prize (UK), the world’s first major award…    read more

This week we present “Mother, After The Hurricane,” a new poem by Matthew Gellman. Matthew Gellman’s poems are featured or forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Narrative, The Common, Passages North, Ninth…    read more

This week we present “Black-Eyed Susan,” a new poem by Emily August. Emily August is an assistant professor of literature at Stockton University, where she teaches courses in 19th-century British…    read more

Tyler Keevil’s moving and beautiful essay “Owl” is about the vulnerability of all creatures in the face of both natural and human-caused calamities. It first appeared in Volume 40, number…    read more

This week we present “The Man Who Felt No Pain” a poem by David Bergman. Bergman’s poems appear in our Fall Issue (41.3) “Practical Living.”   David Bergman is the…    read more