30th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize
Enter the 30th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize from the Missouri Review. Winners in each category receive $5000, publication, promotion, and a virtual event to be determined. Submit one piece of fiction or nonfiction up to 8,500 words or up to 10 pages of poems. Enter online or by mail. All entries considered for publication. Deadline: October 15. |
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On Shane McCrae’s "Sometimes I Never Suffered"
"One of the most paradoxical figures in American history—and perhaps the most compelling creation in contemporary poetry—Jim Limber speaks, often, in a voice that blurs the line between his own and McCrae’s. Even without an eye to the biographical synchronicity that, one guesses, must have drawn McCrae to Limber’s figure initially, Limber becomes—in this sequence—a kind of lyric mask."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Aaron McCollough on "Closed on Three Sides, Open on One"
“Is there an objective world? One of the older, modern philosophical questions. Yes, well….yes and no, is my answer to that question and my poetry’s answer. Whatever objective world there may be, I have only limited access to it as it does to me. What is most real abides not in an independent, verifiable place outside myself nor somewhere hidden deep inside me; rather, what is most real grows in the meeting place." |
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