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A Virtual Reading with Danusha Laméris

May 3, 2020 - By Danusha Laméris

The Massachusetts Review presents a virtual poetry reading with Danusha Laméris, featuring her poemfrom the Spring 2020 issue , "Detour." 

Amy Leach Reads Her "Safari"

January 15, 2016 - By Mass Review

Syria in Words and Music

January 15, 2015 - By Mass Review

Rasha Abbas and her English translator Alice Guthrie read original stories and nonfiction from Syria. The reading is accompanied by the Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble, with a program of all Syrian music, featuring master oud player Kinan Idnawi.

Erri De Luca's "A Dissenting Word"

January 15, 2015 - By Mass Review

In this video blog, Massachusetts Review editor and translator Jim Hicks reads selections from the English translation of Erri De Luca's A Dissenting Word. De Luca is currently being tried in Italy for expressing -- during an interview on the Italian site of the Huffington Post -- his solidarity with the Susa Valley's NO TAV activists, a resistance group that opposes the construction of a high-speed train line between Lyon and Torino. If convicted, De Luca could be sent to prison for up to five years.

MR Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of UMass's MFA for Poets and Writers

January 15, 2014 - By Mass Review

The Massachusetts Review helped celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UMass MFA for Poets and Writers! Many of our interns, editors, and contributors are graduates of the program, and shared their work at an event reading recognizing the MFA's golden anniversary.

National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Mira Bartok reading selections from MR's Spring 2014 issue.