MAR Asks, Doug Ramspeck Answers
Today, we’re pleased to introduce Doug Ramspeck, whose poem, “Unblessing,” appears in MAR 35.1. Ramspeck is the author of four poetry books. His most recent collection, Original Bodies, was selected for the Michael Waters Poetry Prize and is published by Southern Indiana Review Press. Two earlier books also received awards: Mechanical Fireflies (Barrow Street Press...
Pets with MAR: RosyJo
The MAR blog has a new design to reflect the current issue, and this black-and-white beauty is here to help us look our best. Meet RosyJo: RosyJo belongs to MAR 35.1 contributor Cynthia Marie Hoffman, whose poem, “Open Window,” appears in the issue’s special section for prose poems, flash fiction, and everything in-between. Hoffman points...
MAR Asks, Rebecca Foust Answers
Today on the blog we have Rebecca Foust, whose poem, “Dynamic Response of Multi-Layered Soil Media in the Frequency Domain,” appears in MAR 35.1 and was recently reprinted in Poetry Daily. Foust’s fifth book, Paradise Drive, wonthe 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry and will be released in April. Here, she discusses living in Robert...
Pets with MAR: Heidi
Dog lovers, look at this face and rejoice. Please welcome Heidi to the MAR blog! Heidi belongs to Katrin Tschirgi, a graduate of the BGSU MFA program and MAR‘s former managing editor. Katrin’s poetry and prose have appeared in Washington Square Review, Passages North, Hunger Mountain, Post Road, and The Literary Review. Read her poem,...
MAR Asks, Molly Spencer Answers
Everyone watches a girl unfold into a woman, and I hid in the shade of my thorn-dark hair when my father’s friends looked at me too long. This is the the opening of Molly Spencer’s poem, “Aubade with Book and Angel,” which appears in our latest issue of MAR 35.1. Molly’s here to today to...