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Our Latest Issue: The Questionable Past
32.4 Winter 2010
Featuring work by Maggie Shipstead, Julyan G. Peard, Tsung-yan Kwong, Richard Bausch, Daniel Anderson, Mark Kraushaar, Andrew D. Cohen ... and an interview with Pattiann Rogers
Also, congratulations to James A. McLaughlin, winner of the 2009 William Peden Prize in Fiction
Web Features
Poem of the Week
Eden
March 10, 2010
This week, we gladly present Joe Osterhaus' original poem "Eden." Osterhaus is the author of Radiance (Zoo Press) and The Domed Road (Graywolf Press, in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series). His work has appeared most recently in Slate, The Yale Review, and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. He was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2004 and Tennessee Williams Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the University of the South in 2005.
From Our Archives
Munro Country
The sensation of a shared small-town coming of age is the connection that leaves Cheryl Strayed feeling powerfully linked to Alice Munro. Follow along in her essay "Munro Country" as Strayed learns the balance between embracing this link to her past and following her own path to the future.
From our Blog
Poem of the Week: “Eden” by Joe Osterhaus
This week, we gladly present Joe Osterhaus’ original poem “Eden.” Osterhaus is the author of Radiance (Zoo Press) and The Domed Road (Graywolf Press, in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series). His work has appeared most recently in Slate, The Yale Review, and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. He was [...]
Posted on 10 March 2010 | 11:23 pm
TMR Podcast: Rachel Yoder, “The Thing at the Foot of the Bed” (2009 Finalist)
On this Missouri Review podcast, we present “The Thing at the Foot of the Bed” by Rachel Yoder, a finalist in our 2009 Audio Competition. Look for more audio winners throughout the month of March! Listen here: .
Posted on 10 March 2010 | 11:22 pm
Poem of the Week (Mar 2nd)
This week, we are pleased to present Lisa Lewis’s “Where, Oh, Where.” Her books are The Unbeliever (Brittingham Prize), Silent Treatment (National Poetry Series), Burned House with Swimming Pool, forthcoming from Dream Horse Press, and Vivisect, forthcoming from New Issues Press. New work appears or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Washington [...]
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 12:19 pm
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On this Missouri Review podcast, we present "The Thing at the Foot of the Bed" by Rachel Yoder, a finalist in our 2009 Audio Competition. Look for more audio winners throughout the month of March!
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