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Sep 02 2004
An Elegy for Timothy Findley
[By Michael Piafsky] n a few months, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) will host its annual convention, and this year, for the first time, it will be… read more
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Sep 02 2004
An Elegy for Timothy Findley
Michael Piafsky, a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, shares the story of his correspondence with one of Canada’s literary treasures in “An Elegy for Timothy Findley,” a TMR… read more
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Sep 01 2004
Czeslaw Milosz Dies at 93
Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for literature and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth-century, died at his home in Krakow on August 14.… read more
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Aug 30 2004
The State of the Short Story
Every once in awhile, a new anthology of short stories appears, and somewhere in America (usually some place like The New York Times, as is the case in this instance)… read more
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Aug 24 2004
Going Back to School
Last Friday, Evelyn brought her eight-year-old daughter Phoebe to work for the afternoon. I’d heard from her mother that she loves clothes. I asked her if she’d assembled her first… read more
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Aug 17 2004
Moon Over Mountain
Alisa Slaughter’s short story, “Moon Over Mountain,” originally published in TMR 24:3 (2001), is set in Oregon in the 1960s, among itinerant farmers living in the enduring depression of the… read more
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Aug 10 2004
Facilitated Communication
As readers and writers, we often take the (apparently) simple gift of communication for granted. We speak, we listen; we write, we read; we gesture, we interpret. We study the… read more
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Aug 05 2004
Contributors Update
Floyd Skloot’s “Wild in the Woods: Confessions of a Demented Man,” which was first published in The Missouri Review (22:3, 1999) and later reprinted in Best American Nature and Science… read more
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Aug 04 2004
Literature and Fashion
I read fashion magazines and also receive my share of clothing catalogues. Reading these publications, I’ve noticed that puzzling literary references have crept into the copy. From the Victorian Trading… read more
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Aug 03 2004
2004 Editors' Prize Contest Winners
The Missouri Review is pleased to announce winners and finalists in its fourteenth annual Missouri Review Editors’ Prize Contest and the eighth annual Larry Levis Prize in Poetry. Suzanne Feldman… read more