On May 8th, MR and Amherst Books hosted our 2025 Anne Halley Poetry Prize winner Chard deNiord for a reading.
ONE FATHER in a khaki jumpsuit branded with “Correctional Facility” smiles as he supports his fourteen-year-old’s interest in saving the bees through the telephone. In a prison waiting room, another father liesgently to his six-year-old son that the boy’s mother is not incarcerated at all, but at a “police training academy,” where . . .
David Lloyd (65.2) published his fourth poetry collection, The Last Season, with Tiger Bark Press at the end of last year. Jane Zwart (60.4; 64.2)’s debut poetry collection Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best from Orison Books came out in early February. Mitchell Jacobs (60.3; 65.2)’s debut poetry collection Rogue Astronaut . . .
Editor’s note: Carl “Taqwaa” Moore, author of “Thank You, Whoever You Are” from our Winter Special issue, is a writer who is currently incarcerated. The carceral communication systems make conducting a more formal interview nearly impossible. After several weeks of correspondence, we were able to achieve both written and phone interviews. Below . . .
A review of Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love (Harper Perennial 2025) by Zefyr Lisowski and Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980) (Atria 2025) by Eleanor Johnson. I used to think I didn’t like horror films, but then, thirteen years ago, I met . . .
ALAN GROSTEPHAN is the author of The Banana Wars and Bogotá, a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and longlisted for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is also the editor and translator of Stories of Life and Death, a collection of writing by emerging Colombian writers.
