A lot of you showed up with bids for yesterday’s 24-hour reminder… Don’t quit now! Our Annual Silent Auction ends in ONE HOUR. 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); . . .
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Photo from Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis, DC Public Library, 1969. In October, U.S. National Park Service employees reinstalled a statue of Confederate military officer Albert Pike at the corner of Third and D Streets NW in Washington, DC’s Judiciary Square. Pike died in 1891 and Congress approved the statue’s initial . . .
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As 2026 approaches, we want to thank you all for the support you’ve shown not only in the past two months—between fall donations, Giving Tuesday, and our silent auction—but also this whole year, as our constant readers and community members. From now through the end of January, we’re offering a buy-one-get-one sale . . .
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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, . . .
Read Morewith 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 . . .
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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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In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! We’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail every day. Today’s spotlight is on a five-day poetry retreat hosted at MASS MoCA: The expansive five-day writing retreat culminates in a poetry reading in North Adams, Massachusetts. Through daily prompts, exercises, readings, and . . .
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Last Wednesday, December 10th, we hosted a Zoom launch party for our new Winter Special Issue, Incarceration & Family. Commentary from Britt Rusert, Caits Meissner, Nicole Shawan Junior, Lindsay Reckson, Emily Nonko, Lola Carino, Janice Sapigao, and Diane Herring. Readings from Patty Prewitt, Justin Rovillos Monson, Kwaneta Harris, Rickey Cummings, Teddrick Batiste, . . .
Read MoreIn case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! We’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail every day. Today’s spotlight is on a virtual Fine Arts Work Center workshop of your choice: The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, is justly known for helping new and experienced writers take their work . . .
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At 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday November 25th, my husband Peter gets an alert that ICE is attempting a house raid nearby. We jump in the car. Several blocks from the address, we encounter Saint Paul police, flashers on, barring all roads. Saint Paul officially has a separation ordinance that prohibits police from . . .
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