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This week’s Poem of the Week is “A Soldier of The 100th: The Lost Battalion The Vosges” by David Mura! David Mura has written four poetry collections: The Last Incantations,…    read more

On behalf of the Missouri Review’s editorial staff and final judge Alex Sujong Laughlin, we congratulate the winners and runners-up of the 13th Annual Miller Audio Prize: DOCUMENTARY Winner: “Climb…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Philosophers Tell Us About Forms” by Christine Gosnay! Christine Gosnay’s first book, Even Years (Kent State University Press, 2017), won the Stan and…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features fiction and nonfiction too lively to be confined between the covers of a journal.  In “Dead Ear,” an excerpt from his memoir-in-progress, James Steck writes…    read more

Growing up poor is the subject of our new featured prose selection, Terrance Manning Jr.’s “Chromie Thief,” a nostalgic essay that delves into how we find strength through the things…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Keeping Home” by Benjamin Garcia! Benjamin Garcia’s first collection, THROWN IN THE THROAT (Milkweed Editions, August 2020), was selected by Kazim Ali for…    read more

This week’s poem of the week is the 2019 Jeffrey E. Smith Prize-winning “The Lucie Odes,” by Heather Treseler. The Lucie Odes         For Lucie Nell Beaudet (1960-2018)     …    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Artemisia Gentileschi Gives Head to Every Man at Once.” Katie Erbs received her degree in English from Webster University, with an emphasis in…    read more

In “Treading Water,” novelist and essayist Dionne Irving recounts her experience of racial battle fatigue in the context of her lifelong relationship with water and the fraught history of race…    read more

—Originally published in The Missouri Review, Volume 14, Number 3:  A Man Between Nations: The Diary of Peter Pitchlynn 1828 – 1837 from the Foreword This issue’s “History as Literature”…    read more