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Welcome back to our new series of prizewinning “viral” prose for these days of social distancing. Our staff here at TMR hope that you all are well and staying sane.…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Cascadia” by L.A. Johnson! L. A. Johnson is from California. She is the author of the chapbook Little Climates (Bull City Press, 2017).…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Love Letter to Elizabeth Bishop” by Ted Lardner! Ted Lardner’s work has appeared or is forthcoming from Pleiades, Knell, Diagram, Birds Piled Loosely,…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Is This What People Mean?” by Mary Ardery! Mary Ardery is from Bloomington, IN. Her work appears or is forthcoming in RHINO, Two…    read more

Amy M. Alvarez’s poetry is forthcoming or has been published in PRISM international, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sugar House Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is a VONA Fellow…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s new online-only prose anthology, features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a journal. In “West Lake,” Sara Schaff’s protagonist meditates on uncertainty, female…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Ten Years Later My Husband Walks Out of the Woods” by Emily Pérez! Emily Pérez is the author of House of Sugar, House…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “1978” by M. Soledad Caballero! M. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English at Allegheny College. Her scholarly work focuses on British Romanticism, travel…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Water Communion” by Chelsea DesAutels! Chelsea B. DesAutels’s work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, The Adroit Journal, Ninth Letter, Willow…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Emergency Intramedullary Rod Removal” by Brandi Nicole Martin! Brandi Nicole Martin’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner,…    read more

Aaron Coleman is the author of Threat Come Close (Four Way Books, 2018) and the chapbook, St. Trigger, selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Button Poetry Prize. A Fulbright…    read more

BLAST, TMR‘s new online-only prose anthology, features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a journal. In our most recent selection, Michael Cohen asks, “Why do…    read more

Bradley Bazzle is the talented author of Trash Mountain, as well as our featured short story “Relatable Influence.” You can read the story here. This past week, we were able…    read more

  On behalf of our final judge, Cher Vincent, we are pleased to announce the winner and runner-up in each category: DOCUMENTARY Winner: “How to Make an American Pi Quilt,”…    read more

BLAST, TMR‘s new online-only prose “anthology,” features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a journal. Our second selection, new nonfiction by Ron Tanner, speculates…    read more

Nostalgia and science converge in Gulchin A. Ergun’s “Afternoon with a Corpse,” her memoir about learning anatomy on a cadaver in an anatomy lab.  The essay begins with a question:…    read more

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

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

Welcome back to our new series of prizewinning “viral” prose for these days of social distancing.  “Rachel’s Wedding” by Rose Smith won the 2017 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for…    read more

Welcome to our new series of prizewinning “viral” prose for these days of social distancing.  Andrew D. Cohen’s essay “Ronaldo”, which won the 2014 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in…    read more

Welcome to our new series of prizewinning “viral” prose for these days of social distancing.  Today’s selection is Emma Törsz’s “The Wall.” In this 2015 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize-winning fiction,…    read more

A dead man’s second wife and his daughter by a previous marriage wrestle over the rights to his remains in Jennifer du Bois’ darkly comic story about the toll dementia takes on caregivers and family. “The City of the Dead” was a fiction finalist in our 2010 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize contest. Jennifer’s debut novel A Partial History of Lost Causes was published by the Dial Press in 2012 and won the California Book Award Gold Medal for First Fiction, as well as being named one of the best ten books of the year by O: The Oprah Magazine.

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Tea” by Leila Chatti! Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and the chapbooks Ebb (Akashic…    read more

Welcome to our new series of prizewinning “viral” prose for these days of social distancing.  Today’s selection is Yuko Sakata’s “Unintended,” a mysterious story about the complexities of family and…    read more

Welcome to our new series of prizewinning “viral” prose for these days of social distancing. Today we offer Tyler Keevil‘s “Swarf,” a riveting essay about an accident and medical emergency…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Terza Irma” by Denise Duhamel! Denise Duhamel’s most recent book of poetry is Scald (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). Blowout (Pittsburgh, 2013) was…    read more