Pets with MAR: Ori
You’ve seen some cats, a bearded dragon, and now, let’s bring a dog into the picture. Get ready to meet Ori, owned by Teri Dederer. Teri is Ori’s faithful and devoted human slave, dedicated to carrying out his extensive feeding and exercise regime. She and Ori have been together for seven wonderful years, beginning in Pittsburgh,...
Pets with MAR: Smaug
Last week you met some adorable cats, and this week MAR brings you a new pet–a bearded dragon, owned by the great Lisa Favicchia. Lisa Favicchia is the Managing Editor of Mid-American Review and a second-year MFA candidate in poetry at Bowling Green State University. When she is not reading or writing, she is busy...
Accepted: “The Barnum Interview” by Michael Hurley
In the poem “The Barnum Interview,” Michael Hurley crafts an imaginative interview with P.T. Barnum, who becomes a completely unlikeable—but strangely seductive—speaker. As with all well-done persona poetry, Hurley’s Barnum casts an unusual view of the world, but one the reader wants to believe could be real. Barnum’s observations accumulate into character, perhaps most chillingly...
An Interview with writer Sam Martone
In this interview, Former fiction editor Lydia Munnell chats with Sam Martone. Martone’s fiction story “Night Watch at the House of Death” appears in Volume XXXVI, issue 1. I’m interested in the way ideas happen for writers—do stories start with an image or a character or a situation or are they fully formed for you?...
An interview with Christina Duhig, author of “Lesson” (by Coral Nardandrea)
I was a Gender Studies major in college, and I’m a person who, generally, just cares. It’s difficult for me, as an assistant editor on the MAR staff, to pass up a poem that speaks to something bigger and manages to remain artistic. Any of us can say an alarming amount of women are murdered...
Accepted: “No Paper Cowboys” by Bryn Agnew
In our “Accepted” column, Mid-American Review editors discuss why they selected stories, poems, or essays for publication. In this post, Fiction Editor Tom Markham discusses the marvelous “No Paper Cowboys.” Genre: short fiction Title: “No Paper Cowboys” Author: Bryn Agnew MAR Issue: 36.1 First Line: “Your parents stand on the porch as you park your car under the...
What has MAR been up to?
Quite a lot! First, our staff got busy stuffing envelopes with the new, beautiful issue. Subscribers, look for it soon! We also entertained art lovers at Bowling Green State University’s ArtsX event on Saturday, December 6: Thanks to all our subscribers, who should have the newest issue in hand any moment now, and thanks to...
MAR Issue 35.1
The latest issue of Mid-American Review (35.1) is here! Our staff will send this issue out to subscribers soon. Until then, bask in the glory of this gorgeous cover:
Welcome to MAR’s New Blog!
This photo documents the Mid-American Review staff as they stuff envelopes with the latest issue (34.2). That’s right, we’re hands-on here at MAR. But now, thanks to our new website and blog, we don’t have to wait for these envelope-stuffing parties in order to share the MAR love with readers. Stay tuned to this space...