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On May 8th, MR and Amherst Books hosted our 2025 Anne Halley Poetry Prize winner Chard deNiord for a reading.

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Volume 66, Issue 4

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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 . . .

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24 Hours Left in Our Online Auction

Reminder that our Annual Silent Auction ends in exactly 12 hours—get your bids in now! Our offers: Work with an MR Editor Three of our editors are offering one-on-one Zoom manuscript consultations: Poetry editor Nathan McClain (up to 15 pages of poetry, for 3 hours total); Public Affairs editor Shailja Patel (nonfiction up to 7,000 words, . . .

Celebrating Our Contributors

with a huge congratulations, and a holiday deal! Congratulations to Laura Glen Louis for her essay “Man Crossing an Ice Field” from Volume 65, issue 2 (Summer 2024), which has been chosen for inclusion in The Best American Essays 2025! And, to last year’s contributors who were recognized for their “Notable Essays . . .

9 Questions for Caroline Stevens

                                  What I mean is, there are waysback  in  when your  brain  has  checked  you out:singing badly, for example.           Making uglinessa god of sorts. Knowing yourself as a person thatcan be unwillingly . . .

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10 Questions for Alan Grostephan

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.

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