Here’s the list of recent contributors’ publications from late June and July. Stay tuned at the end of each month for a new installment! Lauren Hilger’s poetry collection, “Morality Play” is out now with Poetry Northwest Editions. Her work appears in Vol. 57, Issue 3. Matthew E. Henry’s new poetry collection, “the Colored page” is out now with . . .
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It could happen. Once it happens.Earlier, later. Closer todaybut not to you. You’ll survive because you ran, because you hid.Because you were first. Because last.Because alone. Because the others.—from “Mass Shootings Are Actually Pretty Rare, But Here’s What to Do If You’re Ever in One,” Volume 63, Issue 2 (Summer 2022) What . . .
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Moldy Strawberries is an inspiring exercise in hopelessness and futility. Caio Fernando Abreu’s short story collection, translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato, serves as a coming to terms with life under a repressive government, life without a brighter future. Abreu wrote in Brazil in the 1980s, through the country’s twenty-one-year military . . .
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“A theory of true civilization.It rests not in gas, nor in steam, nor in table-turning.It rests in the diminution of the traces of original sin.” The table-turning (“tables tournantes”) was that of spiritualist seances, and the apothegm is Charles Baudelaire’s, from My Heart Laid Bare (1897, translation by Rainer J. Hanshe, 2017). What Baudelaire intends . . .
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“It is the usual disposition of corners, to be polyvocal, and so, between the voices of future morbidities and past registers, I contribute my current grammar to the orchestra of echoes.”—from “In This Small Place,” Volume 63, Issue 2 (Summer 2022) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.I must . . .
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Hyam Plutzik’s 32 Poems/ 32 Poemas (Suburbano Ediciones, 2022) 32 Poems/ 32 Poemas (2021) is a fully bilingual (Spanish and English) collection of selected poems by the twentieth-century American poet Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962). The three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents from Belarus. Plutzik, . . .
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Barque of phosphorOn the palmy beach…—Wallace Stevens, “Fabliau of Florida” The summer is now getting hotter,But your beach beer need not taste like water!Here are Florida brewsI’ve selected for youTo pursue as a beach blanket squatter. My recs make a 4-pack and flight,So I’ve fashioned my sequence just right:From lager to Tripel,These . . .
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You’re dead for so long and young just a little. So why notkiss if there’s kissing on offer? There isn’t much timeto be beautiful, and even less to know it. Even now,you are losing your poreless luster.—from “Middle-Aged Sonnet,” Volume 63, Issue 2 (Summer 2022) Tell us about one of the first . . .
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The Massachusetts Review is kicking off the summer with our first of many monthly catalogues of new releases from our recent contributors. This June, we will also list earlier 2022 releases to supplement your reading. Keep your eyes peeled at the end of every month for the next installment! 2021 Kathryn A. . . .
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I found a pensión in the Barri Gòtic, not far from La Rambla. An old woman with a limp welcomed me and took my money and showed me to my room. I seem to remember that one of her shoes had a thick heel and sole (to compensate for, I suppose, an . . .
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