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This week’s Poem of the Week is “We have traversed the blue sky” by Shamar Hill! Shamar Hill, a Cave Canem Fellow, is the recipient of numerous awards including a…    read more

On behalf of Editor-in-Chief Speer Morgan and the entire editorial staff of the Missouri Review, it is our great pleasure to announce the winners, runners-up, and finalists for the 2019…    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

BLAST, TMR‘s new online-only prose “anthology,” features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a journal. Just in time for the holidays, Caroline Crew reflects…    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

This 2019 Peden Prize-winning story captures universal themes of grief, sacrifice, misunderstanding, and moving forward. A man in the middle of his life confronts the memory of a man at…    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

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Football Game” by Samuel Cheney! Samuel Cheney is from Centerville, Utah. He is the recipient of scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “What You Never Had” by A.T. McWilliams! A.T. McWilliams is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist living Brooklyn, NY. His poems have appeared…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Butterflies” by Steven Sanchez! Steven Sanchez is the author of Phantom Tongue (Sundress Publications, 2018), selected by Mark Doty as the winner of…    read more