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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

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

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

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