How do we do the work of re-membering at a time when so much is disappearing around us: histories, languages, hard-won rights, violent wrongs, whole species, entire cities, those you have loved, those you never knew? What tools do we need to train our senses on the moment of disappearance—what the poet Polina Barskova calls the half-minute foretaste of ashes—and through memory, refuse obliteration?
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ON APRIL 6, 2023, AT 6:00, in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Old Chapel, the Massachusetts Review will be hosting a celebration of the launch of its Spring issue. The Colombian writer and storyteller Amalialú Posso Figueroa will begin the festivities, along with her English translators, poet Shanta Lee and Comp Lit Ph.D candidate Jeff Diteman. A story by the Nigerian novelist Chuma Nwokolo will then be read by UMass Ph.D candidate in Afro-American Studies and actor, Kym Newberry. The program will close with a reading by the...
Congratulations to MEGAN PINTO, winner of this year's Anne Halley Poetry Prize!
Nathan McClain and Franny Choi have selected Megan Pinto's poem "Chiaroscuro after Caravaggio’s Paul" from MR's Summer 2022 issue (Vol.63, Issue 2) for the prestigious prize. A reading with Megan will take place later this Spring.
MEGAN PINTO is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Lit Hub, Plume, and...
“Revisiting WOMAN: AN ISSUE” will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of a groundbreaking double issue of the Massachusetts Review (MR), while also reexamining the multifaceted conceptions of womanhood in the twenty-first century. The issue will include literary prose and poetry from women writers around the world, including intersex and trans women and transfeminine writers. This issue will represent an effort to go beyond the definition of “woman” as framed by the ideologies of the 1970s, to explore and examine new possibilities and horizons for feminist literatures today.
“Revisiting WOMAN: AN ISSUE” will honor the 50th anniversary of the publication of “WOMAN: AN ISSUE”, which published prose, poetry and visual art by...
We are pleased to announce Aga Gabor da Silva as the 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. You can read Gabor da Silva’s 10 Questions interview with The Massachusetts Review here.
Our judges included one honorable mention as well: Diana Senechal’s translation of Gyula Jenei's poem “Scissors” (MR Vol. 61, Issue 2...
Front Cover by Elise Kendrick
Vii, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 24 in
