In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! Every day, we’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail. Today’s spotlight is on our editors: Nathan McClain (Poetry): up to 15 pages, for 3 hours total McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and Previously Owned (Four Way Books, . . .
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PUBLICATIONS: Alison Charette (63.3)’s translation of Raharimanana’s Return is newly out from University of Chicago Press. Roger Greenwald (57.4) published An Opening in the Vertical World with Black Widow Press in 2024. His more recent publication, Keener Sounds: A Suite (also Black Widow), is a book-length sonnet sequence with paintings by Arielle . . .
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As the holidays are drawing nigh,And our dinners are richer: piled highWith the vegetables, meats,Cheese, and savory treats,And our bellies are full—then we spy Someone bringing a tray of desserts(One more bite and some tummies might hurt).Well, you know without questionBeer helps with digestion.So try some of these to insert 1.In your . . .
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 . . .
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We are so excited to once again offer our curated gifts for serious writers. Through next Friday (December 19th), the Massachusetts Review’s annual online auction is live, with opportunities to work with our editors one-on-one; a chance to attend an online writing workshop from Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center; and a spectacular . . .
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Not just one death,one victim tells another:they killed me by the roadside. —from Ibrahim Fawzy’s translation of Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s “Not Just One Death” (Volume 65, issue 4) What role does language play in resisting colonialism and precipitating liberation? How does your piece engage with this question?Language is not merely a medium . . .
Read MoreWhen the first ceasefire of the year was first announced, on January 19th, 2025, at around 10:00 a.m., celebrations broke out all over Gaza. For those who had remained steadfast in the north, the truce meant the killing had finally stopped, and those who had been displaced to the south were celebrating . . .
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A Review of J. Malcolm Garcia’s Alabama Village: Faith, Hope, and Survival in a Southern Town (Seven Stories, 2025) From the get-go, let it be clear: this will be a partisan review. Early on, during the four-year-plus project that became Alabama Village, Malcolm mentioned to me in an email what he was . . .
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A light split the room where Rubén Darío was trying to write. On that side, a copy of Don Quixote; on this side, the untrimmed sheets of paper with words crossed out and the unread letter from a young poet in search of guidance and assistance. —from Mark Schafer’s translation of David . . .
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I greet an ancient refrigerator,once my father, now reduced to bare bones, yetit remains unbearably heavy. —from Jack Saebyok Jung’s translation of Heeum’s “The Use of a Window” (Volume 66, issue 3) Tell us about one of the first pieces you translated.One of the earliest pieces I translated was a poem by . . .
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