Nathan 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, . . .
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Congratulations to MICHAEL LAVERS, winner of this year’s Anne Halley Poetry Prize! Nathan 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. . . .
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Read MoreCongratulations to MICHAEL LAVERS, winner of this year’s Anne Halley Poetry Prize! Nathan 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. . . .
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Summer Intern Aviva Palencia interviews translator Aga Gabor da Silva, winner of our annual Chametzky Translation Prize for her translation of Ewa Lipska’s “Can Always Happen” from its original Polish. Published in our Spring 2021 issue, Gabor da Silva’s masterfully translates this poem about longing for one’s country of origin. A transcript . . .
Read MoreWatch our 2021 Anne Halley Poetry Prize-winner Abigail Chabitnoy read from her collection of poems as well as the winning poem “Girls Are Coming Out of the Water” from MR’s A Gathering of Native Voices issue. Purchase a signed Broadside of the poem today! ABIGAIL CHABITNOY is the author of How to Dress a . . .
Read MoreThe 2021 winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Abigail Chabitnoy, for her poem “Girls Are Coming out of the Water,” from our Gathering of Native Voices issue (Volume 61, Issue 4). ABIGAIL CHABITNOY is the author of How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for . . .
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The 2020 winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Samuel Taylor for his poem “Postcards from Babel,” published in Volume 60, Issue 1. Sam Taylor is the author of three books of poems, Body of the World (Ausable), Nude Descending an Empire (Pitt Poetry Series), and the forthcoming The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse (Negative Capability). A . . .
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We talked to Alice Guthrie, winner of the 8th Annual Jules Chametzky Prize for Translation, about translating Atef Abu Saif’s “The Lottery.” Here’s what she told us: I think what I really enjoyed about this story, and what made me want to translate it, was the way Atef paints this vivid picture of . . .
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