Pets with MAR: Bukowski
A dog named Bukowski? Only on the MAR blog. Today’s photo is thanks to Sasha Khalifeh, Bukowski’s owner and MAR‘s fearless managing editor. Enjoy: Want to include your pet in this special Pets with MAR blog series? Simply send your photo, along with your pet’s name and any other relevant details, to mar@bgsu.edu with “Pets...
MAR Asks, Melissa Stephenson Answers
We have quite a few new contributor interviews for issue 35.1 in the hopper, but until then, let’s focus on this fun, witty interview with Melissa Stephenson. Her poem, “After Mating for Life,” appears in 34.2. Melissa Stephenson lives, plays, and writes in Missoula, Montana. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming...
Pets with MAR: Nina
Dog lovers, you had your turn recently with Ares — and trust us, more dogs are on the way — but today is the day of the cat. Allow us to present Nina: Nina belongs to Anne Barngrover, a contributor to not one but two recent issues of MAR. Her poems “Dock and Withers” and...
Accepted: “Porch Light, Moonlight, or the Neighbor’s Bedroom”
In our “Accepted” column, Mid-American Review editors discuss why they selected stories, poems, or essays for publication. In this post, Assistant Poetry Editor Jenelle Clausen discusses a poem that appears in issue 34.2. This will be the final “Accepted” entry for 34.2; stay tuned for columns from 35.1. Genre: Poetry Titles: “Porch Light, Moonlight, or...
Pets with MAR: Ares
MAR is for the dogs — and we like it that way. Here’s Ares snuggling up for some reading time with his favorite literary magazine: Ares is owned by Chelsea Kerwin, a poet, MAR assistant editor, and MFA candidate at BGSU. Her works appears in Tulane Review and is forthcoming in Hobart. Want to include...
MAR Asks, Estanislao Lopez Answers
Our first contributor interview for 2015 will also be our penultimate contributor interview from Vol. XXXIV, Number 2. Turn to page 150 of that issue, and you’ll find Estanislao Lopez’s haunting poem, “The Politics of Rivers.” From the opening lines (“Behind brown sheets of dust, my grandfather’s voice / ripened with stories he thought forgotten”)...
Pets with MAR: Sushi
Happy New Year, MAR readers! What’s that — you’re feeling the post-holiday blues? We have the cure for that, and its name is Sushi. Behold: Sushi belongs to Gray Maxwell, a current fiction MFA candidate at BGSU and MAR assistant editor. Thanks, Sushi, for ringing in the new year with a copy of MAR. Cheers!...