Monthly archive July, 2015

Pets with MAR: Saucy and Cirrus

Saucy and Cirrus are like the behind-the-scenes mascots of this Pets with MAR series. More often than not, they kept Fiction Editor Laura Maylene Walter company as she sat at her desk posting pet photos. They’d nap nearby, meow for food, or even trot back and forth across the keyboard. Laura is moving on from...

MAR Asks, Allison Adair Answers

Allison Adair’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Missouri Review (“Poem of the Week”), Boston Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Tahoma Literary Review, the Boston Globe, and the anthology Hacks; and her interactive digital projects have appeared recently at The Rumpus and Electric Literature. She teaches at Boston College and Grub...

Pets with MAR: Seamus & Mabel

MAR 35.1 contributor Bryce Emley (read his recent contributor interview) submitted this photo of his dogs, Seamus and Mabel, standing at attention before a copy of MAR. According to Bryce, “Seamus is a border collie and is afraid of most noises. Mabel, a blue heeler, eats leaves sometimes. They’re both exceptional runners.” MAR welcomes all...

MAR Asks, Nancy Hewitt Answers

Nancy Hewitt’s chapbook Heard was published in 2013 by Finishing Line Press. She earned her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has maintained a private practice in clinical social work in Salem, MA, for over 30 years. She divides her time between Swampscott, MA, where she is the town’s first Poet Laureate, and...