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This week we are delighted to present our new Poem of the Week “The Conversion of He Goes First” by Diane Glancy! Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College…    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

Marin Sardy’s debut memoir, The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia, about mental illness and her family, was published by Penguin/Random House in May, 2019. “A Shapeless Thief,” which…    read more

This week we present “Master Tremor” by Glenn Shaheen! Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently the flash fiction collection Carnivalia (Gold Wake Press, 2018).   MASTER…    read more

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

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 we are delighted to present “Oubliette,” a new poem by Lisa Fay Coutley. Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of tether (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming 2020), Errata (Southern…    read more

Marin Sardy‘s essay “A Shapeless Thief,” about her mother’s schizophrenia, first appeared in the Missouri Review (37:2) and later became part of her new memoir, The Edge of Every Day:…    read more

This week we are delighted to present “Easter Cherries” by Miho Nonaka! Miho Nonaka is a bilingual poet from Tokyo. Her first book of poems, The Museum of Small Bones,…    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