Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry
Featuring the Winners of the 2007 Editors' Prize as well as work by: John Alford, C.K. Hutchins, Amos Magliocco, Michael McGriff, Cynthia Morrison Phoel, Natalie Sears, and Jerald Walker.
And an interview with Charles Baxter.
May 8, 2008
This week's poem is "More and Tinier" by Laura Kasischke, which originally appeared in TMR 30:1 (2007). Kasischke has published seven collections of poetry, including, most recently, Lilies Without, released with Ausable Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Ploughshares, the Iowa Review and elsehwere. The film adaptation of her novel The Life Before Her Eyes, starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood, was released on April 18. Kasischke teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Chelsea, Michigan.
Animals figure prominently, even disturbingly, in Diza Sauers' story "Roan." Not content to fixate only on the way humans deal with death at an emotional pitch, "Roan" employs a harsh naturalism that reduces death to its biological, or animal, level.
May 8th, 2008 by Speer Morgan
I was riding my electric bike through the neighborhood last evening at the quiet hour. No wind, no traffic, no hard pumping up the hills. A few people gardening in their front yards looked up and smiled as I tooled by. And what was I thinking about?
The meaning of the suffix “-ate.” Yes, that’s right. […]
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May 5th, 2008 by Evelyn Somers
While we have stacks of submissions waiting to be read, we’re once again short in the interview department. If you have an unpublished interview with an established author, please query me at mutmrquestion@missouri.edu. Past interview subjects include Richard Powers, Antonya Nelson, A.M. Homes, Julian Barnes, Charles Baxter and Stuart Dybek.
We’re also looking for good, sharp […]
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April 29th, 2008 by Kris
I remember myself as a shy, soft spoken little girl, but the kid that appears in the home movies I recently inherited is anything but bashful. My father filmed my dance recitals, a riot of miniature ballerinas dressed as pink shrimps, lightening bugs and yellow birds. Clumsy and uncoordinated, my place was in the back […]
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