Nathan McClain and Abigail Chabitnoy have selected Chard deNiord’s poem “This Side of You” from MR’s Spring 2024 issue (Vol. 65, Issue 1) for the prestigious prize. CHARD DENIORD is the author of 7 books of poetry, most recently In My Unknowing (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) and Interstate (U. of Pittsburgh . . .
Read MoreEditor’s note: A video reading from some of the contributors to our Gaza issue, with poems in Arabic followed by their English translations. In order of presentation, Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Ibrahim Fawzy, Batool Abu Akleen, Wiam El-Tamami, Muhammed al-Zaqzouq, as translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, Nathalie Handal, Zena K.A. Elhout, and Anam Zafar.
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Mahendra Kapoor, Nikaah (1982) Don’t say adieu yet, my friends, in pain;We don’t know where we might meet again. Because. . .The touch of shared moments we’ll continue to share,The touch of shared moments we’ll continue to share,We shall meet perhaps in dreams, not a nightmare.The touch of shared moments we’ll continue . . .
Read MoreCurated playlist of music that inspired our 2024 Fall artist, Mike Ousley, as he created the artwork featured within our issue: “Wildcat & Snake”Brushy Fork of St. John’s Creek By Daniel Sherrill “Night Train”Old Train by the Tony Rice Unit “Company Town”Sally Ann by Dirk Powell “Cults Are Fun”Little Things by Adrian . . .
Read MoreNathan McClain and Abigail Chabitnoy have selected Michael Lavers’ poem “Sun, Birds, and Leaves” from MR’s Summer 2023 issue (Vol. 64, Issue 2) for the prestigious prize. MICHAEL LAVERS is the author of After Earth and The Inextinguishable, both published by the University of Tampa Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, Southwest Review, Best New Poets 2015, TriQuarterly, The Georgia Review, . . .
Read MoreTo celebrate the launch of our Woman:Revisited, an issue looking at womanhood and femininity 50 years after MR first published an issue on the theme, we hosted a reading with editor Shailja Patel and Zoe Tuck, and contributors Carole DeSanti and Kayhan Irani.
Read MoreView a recording of our 2023 Anne Halley Poetry Prize Reading with winner Megan Pinto!
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ON APRIL 6, 2023, AT 6:00, in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Old Chapel, the Massachusetts Review hosted a celebration of the launch of its Spring issue. The Colombian writer and storyteller Amalialú Posso Figueroa began the festivities, along with one of her English translators, poet Shanta Lee. A story by the Nigerian . . .
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View a recording of our Disability Justice: A Reading event, featuring featuring Zefyr Lisowski, Bhavna Mehta, Claude Olson, and Saleem Hue Penny! Closed Captioning is available, and an audio transcript can be found here.
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