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Good literature can be exhausting. Pictured here are Tina and Max, who had to pause for a quick nap after reading MAR 34.2. Their owner, James Warner, has a story in this issue — “Using the Word ‘Posterity’ in a Sentence.”

In his recent contributor’s interview, James said, “Any time I feel I’ve nailed a sentence, gotten some detail just right, my existence feels justified for a moment or two…I think one has to take satisfaction in the writing itself, since what happens afterwards is so unforeseeable.” Wise words. Read his contributor’s interview for more. And then follow Tina and Max’s lead and get some rest.

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 with MAR” in the subject line.

Now that Winter Wheat is over, we can kick back, relax, and get some reading done…with our pets, of course. Our latest Pets with MAR guest is Chester, who belongs to Suzanne Hodsden, our tech editor.

After you’ve soaked up Chester’s cuteness, check out Suzanne’s three-part series about Dan Stevens, the post-MFA life, and more starting here: How I Almost Met Dan Stevens Eight Times on a Mission from MAR, Part I: The Post-MFA Years.

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 lauwalt@bgsu.edu with “Pets with MAR” in the subject line.

Allow us to introduce Lucy, our latest Pets with MAR representative! Lucy is owned by Jackie Cummins, one of MAR‘s assistant editors and a current MFA candidate at Bowling Green State University. After you soak in the cuteness that is Lucy, read Jackie’s story, “Gretel’s Revenge,” which was recently published by Gingerbread House Literary Magazine.

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 lauwalt@bgsu.edu with “Pets with MAR” in the subject line.

Welcome to our new and oh-so-serious blog series: Pets with MAR. That’s right, we’re sharing photos of pets posing with an issue of Mid-American Review. You can get in on the fun, too – simply snap a photo of your pet with a MAR issue and send it to us. Whether your pet is a dog, cat, horse, guinea pig, rabbit, hamster, goldfish, lizard, parrot, hedgehog, or something else, we want to see it enjoying the fine writing in MAR.

For our inaugural pet, we have Pandora. Her owner, Laura Madeline Wiseman, contributed a creative nonfiction piece, “From Russia with Love Melancholia,” to our Spring 2014 issue. Read Laura’s contributor interview after you bask in the glory of Pandora’s fine literary taste:

 

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 lauwalt@bgsu.edu, with “Pets with MAR” in the subject line.