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Sonya Schneider’s poems can be found or are forthcoming in American Poetry Journal, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Penn Review, Potomac Review, Raleigh Review, Rattle, Salamander, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.…    read more

When I picked up Richard’s first book, Not a Soul But Us, I knew only that it was a story in eighty-four sonnets about a boy and his dog struggling to…    read more

Luisa A. Igloria was a 2025 poetry finalist for The Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize Contest. She is the author of Caulbearer (Immigrant Writing Series Prize, Black Lawrence Press, 2024), Maps for Migrants…    read more

In this sparkling, spare sci-fi by Zoe Ballering, the descendants of Earth’s elite trawl space for “the barest hint of life,” aching for what, and who, they left behind. Most…    read more

“The Kidnapped Child” by Nicholas Samaras is our Poem of the Week. *** The Kidnapped Child What do you really want to know? I came from a dark place called…    read more

Leila Farjami was a 2025 poetry finalist for The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. She is an Iranian American poet and psychotherapist. Her debut poetry collection, Daughter of Salt, an Editor’s Selection at Trio…    read more

Darryl J. Benjamin’s “The Art of Falling Water” is a short story about a man who applies for a challenging new job to support his daughter’s future. Learning the traditional…    read more

Kirun Kapur was a 2025 finalist for The Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize in poetry. She grew up in Hawaii and now lives along the banks of the Merrimack River. She is the…    read more

Arlene DeMaris was a finalist for poetry in The Missouri Review’s 2025 Editors’ Prize Contest. She is a poet and freelance writer. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, she now lives in Avon, Connecticut, with her husband,…    read more

Photo credit: Mark Elliott Paull. Not approved for duplication or download. “When Lindy Saved My Life” honors Mark Elliott Paull’s profound connection with a beloved greyhound; whose companionship anchored him while he navigated type 1 diabetes and immense grief. This essay prompts us…    read more

Jarrett Moseley was a finalist for poetry in The Missouri Review’s 2025 Editors’ Prize. He is a bisexual poet living in Miami and the author of the chapbook Gratitude List (Bull City Press, 2024). His manuscript, Rehumanization Litany, was…    read more

Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor whose newest poetry book, Accidental Devotions, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2026. Accidental Devotions, a collection dedicated to…    read more

Mallory Rodenberg’s poems have recently appeared in Shō Poetry Journal and The Swannanoa Review. She was the 2025 artist-in-residence for the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation and the recipient of the…    read more

“Thanksgiving, 2001” is a black comedy set in a “pentagram” of punk houses in Olympia, Washington, in the months after 9/11. Never flinching, Liina Koivula’s short story explores queer community, human connection, and the decision to define oneself on one’s own terms. TMR’s online-only prose anthology, BLAST features prose…    read more

Zoë Ryder White’s first full-length collection, The Visible Field, was published by River River Books in February 2026. A chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’s Snowbound Chapbook Prize and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. HYPERSPACE was the editors’ choice for…    read more

Stephanie Choi’s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Electric Literature, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, The Lengest Neoi, was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2023 Iowa Poetry Prize and published in 2024.…    read more

Reflecting on his time in Kraków, Poland, Michael Downs considers how war and sieges affect people, especially children. His essay “Report” recalls events laced with the brutal reality of pain…    read more

Alison Pelegrin is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Louisiana Board of Regents, the Foundation for Louisiana, and the Academy of American…    read more

Fall 2025 Missouri Review interns Graham Medric George ’27 and Sofia Louise Ottolini ’27 interviewed Julia Ridley Smith about Sex Romp Gone Wrong, her recent short-story collection, when she visited…    read more

Rebecca Hawkes is a queer painter-poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first book was Meat Lovers (AUP), finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the US and winner of a Laurel Prize in…    read more

Photo credit: “Siouxsie and Robert” by Tom Sheehan. Image copyright: Tom Sheehan. Not approved for duplication or download. In his essay “Siouxsie, Susan, Robert, and Me,” Jaime Gill reflects on…    read more

Clare Rossini has published three books—her first won the Akron Poetry Prize—and coedited an anthology titled The Poetry of Capital (University of Wisconsin, 2020). Rossini’s teaching career includes appointments at Carleton College,…    read more

Javier Sandoval grew up in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico before moving across the American West & South, where he now teaches at the University of Georgia. His work has…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. In this essay by Michael J. Cannistraci, a New York actor…    read more

Catherine Arnold is no stranger to silence. She didn’t read until age eleven, and as a painter who experiences synesthesia, she is always looking at words, images, and scenes coded…    read more

Christian Yeo Xuan is the author of the forthcoming So Rain, winner of the 2025 Sundress Chapbook Competition. His work has been published or is forthcoming in EPOCH, ANMLY, The…    read more

JC Andrews is a lesbian poet from Springfield, Arkansas, with an interest in poems that work as an un-ing, poems that hold questions as a form of caretaking. Her work…    read more

Jennifer Jang’s “Instant Ramen” is a story of trying to find where one belongs. When two Taiwanese expats meet in New York, they are drawn to each other even as…    read more

Cassidy McFadzean is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Crying Dress (House of Anansi, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, Hazlitt, The Walrus, Future Tense Fiction, and…    read more

“To Narcan” by Alejandro Lucero is our Poem of the Week. Alejandro Lucero’s chapbook, Sapello Son, was named the Editors’ Selection for the Frost Place Competition (Bull City Press, 2024).…    read more

In Michael Pikna’s story “Once Is Never,” an elderly Czech couple looks back on their lives, remembering both joys and unspeakable suffering. As Marek and Tereza move toward the next…    read more

“The God of Kindness” by Matt McBride is our Poem of the Week. Matt McBride is the author of two full-length collections, City of Incandescent Light (Black Lawrence, 2018) and…    read more

“Yoga in the Workplace” by Jared White is our Poem of the Week. Jared White was raised in a valley of apple orchards along the Columbia River of Washington state.…    read more

“Eighteen People Every Hour” by Dennis McFadden is a moving meditation on memory, death, and desire. First featured in TMR 46.4, McFadden’s story is a portrait not only of decline…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. In her essay “Cockroach Bay,” Courtney Ann LaFaive recounts her experience…    read more

“Abecedarian/Prayer” by Steve Gehrke is our Poem of the Week. Steve Gehrke holds an MFA in poetry and screenwriting from the University of Texas-Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow,…    read more

“The Error of My Ways” by Joseph J. Capista is our Poem of the Week. Joseph J. Capista is the author of Intrusive Beauty (Ohio University Press). His poems have…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. Crockett Doob’s “SOCIAL MEDIA PROXY” and “LUKEWARM MESS” are both critical…    read more

“Video Ergo Sum” by Traci Brimhall is our Poem of the Week. Traci Brimhall is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon Press, 2024).…    read more

“Incursions of Light 13” and “Incursions of Light 14” by Bruce Bond are our Poems of the Week. Bruce Bond is the author of thirty-seven books including Patmos (Juniper Prize,…    read more

Steeped in the divisive cues of status, Emily Neuberger’s “Under the River” traps a group of New Yorkers in a subway car at midnight and explores what we owe to…    read more

“Bad Trip” by Ye Chun is our Poem of the Week. Ye Chun has published two books of poetry, Travel Over Water and Lantern Puzzle. Her novel, Straw Dogs of…    read more

“The Long Hedge, 1948” by Kip Zegers is our Poem of the Week. Kip Zegers is from Chicago and was educated at John Carroll University, Northwestern University, and Union Theological…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. In a world not unlike our own, where unmodified perception has…    read more

“Picnic” by Theodora Ziolkowski is our Poem of the Week. Theodora Ziolkowski is the author of the novella, On the Rocks (TRP: The University Press of SHSH), winner of a…    read more

Sara Beth Greene’s “Drifting in 7-Eleven” follows a young woman whose Instagram posts about Tokyo’s surprising convenience-store finds become her life preserver as she drifts through the wreckage of one…    read more

“Jason” by David Ehmcke is our Poem of the Week. David Ehmcke lives in Brooklyn. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Drift, swamp pink, Image, EPOCH,…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. Glinting with desert dust, “This Might Be It” is Michael Hicks’s…    read more

“Ricky is my Brother’s Loud Friend” by Sam Bailey is our Poem of the Week. Sam Bailey is from central Pennsylvania. His poems are out or forthcoming in the Yale…    read more

“A Good Death” by Christina Olson is our Poem of the Week. Christina Olson is the author of The Anxiety Workbook (Pitt Poetry Series, 2023), which was a finalist for…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. Hauntingly memorable, Renji Philip’s essay “Two Photographs” reflects on two brothers…    read more

“Bedroom Confession” by Lyn Li Che is our Poem of the Week. Lyn Li Che is from Malaysia. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review,…    read more

“After the Plague” by Nicholas Montemarano is our Poem of the Week. Montemarano is the author of five books, most recently a memoir, If There Are Any Heavens (Persea Books,…    read more

BLAST, TMR’s online-only prose anthology, features prose too vibrant to be confined between the covers of a print journal. A 2025 Perkoff Prize finalist, “Once I Lived at the Y”…    read more

“In the Bed Where I Was Conceived” by Todd Davis is our Poem of the Week. Todd Davis is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry, most recently Ditch…    read more

“March” by Christine Byrne is our Poem of the Week. Christine Byrne is a writer based in Baltimore. She studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she won the John…    read more

“Jumper Girl” is the 2025 Perkoff Prize runner-up in nonfiction. In this haunting essay, Bonnie Darves recalls her relationship with a persona who captured her imagination and stayed with her…    read more

Anne Gimm interviewed Peter Mountford about his collection of short stories, Detonator, published by Four Way Books in September 2025. “Love of Her Life,” a story about a woman who…    read more

Justin Taroli‘s piece, “Coyote Map,” follows a photographer who strangely encounters coyotes throughout the city of Albuquerque, after returning once their grandmother passes away. As the mysterious sightings progress, they…    read more