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 . . .
Jakyra Green, author of the poem “Dear Brother” from Volume 66, issue 4, chose to read and briefly discuss Carl Brandon Moore (who goes by Taqwaa)‘s poem, “Thank You, Whoever You Are,” as part of our new interview series. Upon hearing about this, Taqwaa was overjoyed to read and discuss Green’s poem . . .
As part of our new interview series, Benjamin Frandsen has written the following creative nonfiction piece on the craft of his published essay, “Some Mother’s Darling” (Volume 66, issue 4). Nonfiction can accurately depict a world surrounding you with lies. Fiction may be skillfully woven together with unbreakable strands of truth. But . . .
Where there’s ice, it’s cool for two. For two: so I let you come. A breath as of fire was around you— —Paul Celan When it’s cold, find some warmth by the fire.Pour . . .
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.
