Congratulations to Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, winners of our annual Chametzky Prize for their translation of José Luís Peixoto’s “The Woman Who Dreamed”! This story appeared in our Summer 2025 issue, and was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can read their joint 10 Questions interview from last year here. . . .
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Congratulations to Caroline Harper New, the winner of this year’s Anne Halley Poetry Prize! Poetry editors Nathan McClain and Abigail Chabitnoy selected New’s poem “My Love for Geography Is an Act of Mourning” from our Summer 2025 issue for the prize. A virtual reading with New and printed broadsides featuring the poem . . .
Read MoreLeila Chatti, Jan Clausen, Susan Li, Meghana Mysore, Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico! We are beyond proud to have published these works this past year, and wish the best to our nominees in the future. Congratulations, and thank you all—your brilliant work makes our own that much brighter!! From . . .
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, . . .
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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. . . .
Read MoreView a recording of our 2023 Anne Halley Poetry Prize Reading with winner Megan Pinto!
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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