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This week we are delighted to present “Grace,” a new poem by Orlando Ricardo Menes. Orlando Ricardo Menes is a Cuban-American poet, translator, editor and fiction writer who teaches in…    read more

This week we are delighted to present “Contrapuntal with Gladys Knight and Infidelity,” a new poem by Ashley M. Jones. Ashley M. Jones is a poet, organizer, and educator from…    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

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Prom Queen(s)” by Alicia Elkort and Jennifer Givhan! Alicia Elkort’s poetry has appeared in AGNI, Black Lawrence Press, Califragile, Georgia Review, Heron Tree,…    read more

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

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

This week on The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, audio intern Annie Thomas interviews author José Orduña. Orduña attended Columbia, Missouri’s Unbound Book Festival in April to speak about his first book,…    read more

This week, we are delighted to present “Cassini” a new poem by Joanne Diaz. Joanne Diaz is the recipient of fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, the National Endowment for…    read more

Last weekend Columbia, Missouri was buzzing with writers as the Unbound Book Festival took place. Listen as The Missouri Review’s intern Hannah Kauffman engages poet Sarah Gambito in a brief…    read more

This week we are delighted to present “I Ride Upon a Tiger,” a new poem by Kirun Kapur. Kirun Kapur is the winner of the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize…    read more

This week on The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, please enjoy the next installment of our series featuring literary events from the Columbia, Missouri area. This recording from THE NEXT WEATHER…    read more

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

For this installment of The Missouri Review’s Soundbooth Podcast, we’re featuring readings from three talented writers: poetry from Jordi Alonso, fiction from Teresa Milbrodt, and poetry from Grace Gardiner. This…    read more