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The 9TH Annual ANNE HALLEY POETRY PRIZE

Poetry Reading by
ROSS GAY
Winner of the 9^TH Annual
 ANNE HALLEY POETRY PRIZE
awarded by
The Massachusetts Review
Amherst Books
Tuesday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m.

A Cave Canem Fellow, Ross Gay is author of Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down, the title poem of which enacts this poet’s excruciating extremes of terror and tenderness, and his profound understanding of what it means to be human. Gay’s poems have appeared in American Poetry Review and Ploughshares, among others, and Terrance Hayes dubbed him...

Tyler Boudreau on Talk of the Nation

Tyler Boudreau, author of the memoir Packing Inferno, discussed the social costs of war and "moral injury," the topic of his essay in MR's Casualty issue, with Dr. Jonathan Shay on NPR's Talk of the Nation, November 21, 2012.

Michael F. Moore Awarded the 2nd Annual Chametzky Prize

The editors of the Massachusetts Review are proud to announce that the winner of this year’s Jules Chametzky Translation Prize is Michael F. Moore, for the excerpt from his translation of Erri De Luca's The Day Before Happiness, published in the journal’s Casualty Issue.

Michael F. Moore has also translated De Luca's Three Horses and God's Mountain. He has new translations coming out of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed (Modern Library, 2013) as well as Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved (Norton, 2013). His other work includes translations of Sandro Veronesi, Franco Moretti, Guido Ceronetti, Umberto Eco, and Joseph...

Natasha Trethewey is named U.S. Poet Laureate

For her appointment to the post of United States Poet Laureate, our heartfelt congratulations to Natasha Trethewey. Trethewey earned her M.F.A. degree at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she studied with, among others, James Tate and Dara Wier.

Check out Natasha Trethewey's poem, from MR 37.1 (Spring, 1996).

PHILIP METRES AWARDED THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW’S 8th ANNUAL ANNE HALLEY POETRY PRIZE

The editors of the Massachusetts Review are proud to announce that the winner of this year’s Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Philip Metres for his poem “Home/Front,” published in the journal’s Casualty Issue.

Philip Metres grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Holy Cross College in 1992, and spent the following year in Russia on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, pursuing an independent project called "Contemporary Russian Poetry and Its Response to Historical Change." Metres went to Indiana University, where he received a Ph.D. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing,...