The Road Towards Home, a new novel by Corinne Demas, is just in time for beach reads and languid summer days. This novel, largely set on Cape Cod, is a breezy read with a literary bent, ideal for throwing in a beach bag. Demas is a prolific writer and while she has written . . .
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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Maria slinked in corners and stood next to objects that did not move, pretending that she was an object. She held on to her growing belly. It wouldn’t stop moving, wriggling like a worm exposed to the sun. She tried to wear bigger clothes, pretending that nothing was happening in the area . . .
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The nanny Fidelia Córdoba kept her rhythm in her tetas. She’d been born on the banks of the River Sipí and she had bulging tetas, small and round like a pair of corozos, with retractile nipples that also had a sense of direction. They were all at once compass-sextant-weather-vane-plumb-line-quadrant-astrolabe-point-you-left-point-you-right, or wherever you . . .
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A Review of Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris. (Alice James Books, 2023) Why write love poetry in a burning world?To train myself in the midst of a burning worldto offer poems of love to a burning world. —Katie Farris, “Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World” In the . . .
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Whenever my mom and dad were at the dinner table (the place of memorial and celebration, the place of conversation), I’d ask them about their days. I wanted to imagine their lives without me, their movements and rhythms when I was not there. What I was getting at, though I didn’t know . . .
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I’m so in love with you all of a sudden, you machine angel. Angel machine. Because I am still learning your new smells. Plastic, salt, animal, finally and still thinking plastic, salt, animal, finally. Because you are letting me stand you up in the shower and wash your hair like you are . . .
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Hannah doesn’t get on-campus housing for the summer, but she doesn’t want to go back to Missouri, back to her old life, back in time. The summer before, her first summer after starting college, she sat in basements sipping Budweiser as her formerly bookish friends swapped stories about frat parties. She sat . . .
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Karin Cecile Davidson‘s collection of stories, The Geography of First Kisses, is out now from Kallisto Gaia Press. Her story “In the Great Wide” was published in our Spring 2020 issue. Mary Fister‘s poetry collection Quick to Bolt has just been published by Green Writers Press. We published Mary’s poem “Parting Shots” in our Spring . . .
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