Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry
Featuring the Winners of the 2009 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize
As well as work by: Dwight Allen, Anthony Doerr, Daniel Donaghy, Christina Hutchins, Adam Prince, Deborah-Anne Tunney, and Lisa Williams.
With an interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt.
June 2, 2009
This week we are proud to feature "Melt" by Lisa Williams, which appears in the current issue of The Missouri Review (32:1, 2009). Lisa Williams is the author of two books of poems, Woman Reading to the Sea (W.W. Norton, 2008) which won the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and The Hammered Dulcimer (Utah State University Press, 1998). She was awarded a Rome Prize in Literature by the Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. Her poems have appeared in the Southwest Review, Poetry, the Cincinnati Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Measure, as well as in the Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to Present. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she is an associate professor of English at Centre College in Kentucky.
Spring Love
"In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," Alfred Tennyson famously wrote ("Locksley Hall") in the late 1830s. Read what "a young man ‘s fancy" could look like in the late 2000s, in Maury Feinsilber's first-ever published story, "Who's Walking Who?"
Maury Feinsilber has been writing fiction for over a dozen years. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Jackie and their dog. He has recently completed his first novel, "A Cosmology of Ink."
June 15th, 2009 by Richard Sowienski
I’m a believer in a liberal arts education and all that it stands for, including (but not limited to) the enhancement of critical reading and thinking skills, a broadened cultural perspective, an appreciation of the arts, and a context for determining why we’re here and what our purpose in life may be. That does not, [...]
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June 15th, 2009 by The Missouri Review
Take a look behind the scenes of a literary journal as The Missouri Review reveals what happens to a manuscript once it arrives at our offices. Thanks for the creativity and diligent work by our team of video production interns: Scott Scheese, Kate McIntrye, Lindsay Sihilling, Cody Horton, and Emily Wunderlich. Original music by Kyle [...]
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May 29th, 2009 by Richard Sowienski
This week Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Ramona Koval interviewed Jason Anthony about his experience in Antarctica. Anthony’s essay, “Song of Hypothermia,” appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of The Missouri Review and was the springboard for much of the conversation. We’ve posted the full essay for your reading enjoyment, and you can hear the interview here.
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In this installment of The Missouri Review podcast, we discuss Seth Fried's story "Loeka Discovered" (which appeared in our Winter 2008 issue) with editor Speer Morgan and the author.
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