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 . . .
From our Winter 2025 Special Issue, Mae Ellen-Marie Wissert reads her poem “one night outlaw”: Originally from Idaho, Mae Ellen-Marie Wissert is currently an MFA student of poetry at the University of Mississippi. Her poetry is published in West Trade Review and is forthcoming in North American Review. She can be contacted through her email, mewisser@go.olemiss.edu.
A review of Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope (Bloomsbury 2026) by Daniel Ellsberg From the time Daniel Ellsberg was barely more than a toddler, his mother—a domineering woman whose love was conditional on obedience to her wishes—was determined that Ellsberg would become a world-class concert pianist. Thus, instead . . .
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 . . .
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.
