On May 8th, MR and Amherst Books hosted our 2025 Anne Halley Poetry Prize winner Chard deNiord for a reading.
FRONT COVER:Alvin SmithUndesirable Water, c. 2015ACRYLIC ON UNSTRETCHED CANVAS 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 . . .
In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! We’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail every day. Today’s spotlight is on a five-day poetry retreat hosted at MASS MoCA: The expansive five-day writing retreat culminates in a poetry reading in North Adams, Massachusetts. Through daily prompts, exercises, readings, and . . .
Last Wednesday, December 10th, we hosted a Zoom launch party for our new Winter Special Issue, Incarceration & Family. Commentary from Britt Rusert, Caits Meissner, Nicole Shawan Junior, Lindsay Reckson, Emily Nonko, Lola Carino, Janice Sapigao, and Diane Herring. Readings from Patty Prewitt, Justin Rovillos Monson, Kwaneta Harris, Rickey Cummings, Teddrick Batiste, . . .
In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! We’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail every day. Today’s spotlight is on a virtual Fine Arts Work Center workshop of your choice: The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, is justly known for helping new and experienced writers take their work . . .
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.
