On May 8th, MR and Amherst Books hosted our 2025 Anne Halley Poetry Prize winner Chard deNiord for a reading.
ONE FATHER in a khaki jumpsuit branded with “Correctional Facility” smiles as he supports his fourteen-year-old’s interest in saving the bees through the telephone. In a prison waiting room, another father liesgently to his six-year-old son that the boy’s mother is not incarcerated at all, but at a “police training academy,” where . . .
Diamond Forde (61.2) just published her new collection The Book of Alice with Scribner. It is the winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets! Gerald Yelle (38.2)’s microfiction collection, Love Bomb, is out now with Alien Buddha Press. Jessica Cuello (65.3) has . . .
Review of Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed’s Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana (Rutgers University Press, 2025) Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed’s Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana is an exploration of the media landscape of Northern Ghana, specifically among the Dagbamba people. Mohammed presents to us a . . .
Editor’s note: Going forward, our author interviews will be moving away from the 10 Questions series and instead will take different forms depending on the author’s wishes. We’re hoping this provides a more diverse and specific reading experience, and also makes room for author-led creative projects and discussions down the line! “My . . .
ALAN GROSTEPHAN is the author of The Banana Wars and Bogotá, a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and longlisted for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is also the editor and translator of Stories of Life and Death, a collection of writing by emerging Colombian writers.
