"The curation of Afrikan feminism by organs of imperial states endangers freedoms across the continent that generations have fought for." Lebohang Liepollo Pheko on the positionality of Afrikan feminism and anti-colonialism in Gaza: massreview.org/2025/10/03/a...

"Work is a common theme in my writing, not just FALLOUT. I’m interested in how our jobs shape us, trap us, save us—and the weirder the job, the better." Meg Toth, author of FALLOUT (MR 66.2), writes on jobs, ghost stories, and Cleveland for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/10/01/1...

Am I good at remembering to post on here? NO. Do I have a story I very much want you to read in the new issue of The Massachusetts Review? YES. Is that story called "Tony Robbins Is Dead"? HELL YES.

Happy October to all--but especially to those who have been waiting so patiently to submit work to MR... Our submission period is now OPEN! Read our guidelines and submit your own work today: massreview.org/new-submissi...

October officially starts tomorrow, which means we open up our submission manager! Get ready to share your prose, poetry, hybrid, and more: massreview.org/new-submissi...

"I knew I’d be writing about anomie and the bewilderment many of us experience after college when we need to find a way forward into adulthood and its enchantments and (more numerous) disenchantments." Christine Sneed gives us another great interview for #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/09/25/a...

I answered 10 questions for @themassreview.bsky.social

"Multi-disciplinarity is certainly a mainstay of the book: filmmakers and songwriters have wisdom to lend to a life of writing[...]" Jon Hoel looks at Brian Morton's use of artists and baseball in his WRITING AS A WAY OF LIFE for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/09/25/r...

"Media still gets so much wrong about autistic people. It dehumanizes us, turns us into devices—brilliant, eccentric, magical, supernatural, inspirational, burdensome—to further others’ stories." Kalpita Pathak for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/09/24/1...

"I started hiding a leather journal full of poems in a loquat tree in our backyard, but I think Peggy Sue was the only poem to make it out of my journals until college." Caroline Harper New on polka-dot hippos and magic chairs for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/09/23/1...

"I’m drawn to fleeting encounters that stay with characters—small, weird interactions that hang around in memory." Fiction writer Ariel Katz shares what inspired her--and where she's been inspired-- to write "Organizing Principle" for our #10Questions: massreview.org/2025/09/22/1...

Check out the latest from @thebeliever.net featuring an essay by MR's #translation editor Mona Kareem: www.thebeliever.net/the-labyrinth/

I have a new poem in The Massachusetts Review !! a piece called "Emergency" about a very creepy evening at an eye hospital in Paris. Many thanks to the very excellent @themassreview.bsky.social

"We ran back with hundreds of others, trying to find cover and escape the shooting, but so many more people remained there in the hope that the site would open." A dispatch from #Gaza with Khaled Al-Qershali on the famine and the so-called 'humanitarian' efforts: massreview.org/2025/09/19/i...

"Verses and images that travel in and reappear through time and space are instructive signs for how the novel approaches language." Kanyin Ajayi looks at the language and story of Issa Quincy's ABSENCE for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/09/18/a...

With work from Leila Chatti and Myronn Hardy and Yutong Li, plus translations including poems by Heeum (transl. by Jack Saebyok Jung) and art by Alex Callender, this collection pairs well with PSL's and apple-picking and political resistance: massreview.org/issue/volume...

#WesternMass Friends! Come hear a talk with professor and scholar Jina B. Kim, in conversation with executive editor Britt Rusert, next Thursday:

"Each of these poems follows one of Tate’s familiar formulae: either something extraordinary or supernatural disturbs the realm of the ordinary or vice versa. . ." Noah Hale looks at the new #JamesTate collection from Press Brake for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/09/09/t...

"There is a measure of comfort in the nearness of others and there are ways in which a person can never be near enough." Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a

"We have so few moments when we can take a breath away from the war in Gaza." Sara Awad mourns Gaza and its spaces of solace in AL-BAQA CAFÉ: massreview.org/2025/08/29/a...

I loved this challenging, layered book. You might too. Thanks to @themassreview.bsky.social for publishing my review of CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington from Southern Illinois University Press. massreview.org/2025/08/26/a...

“...but now, in my work, I have a place to explore how I exist in and respond to these spaces in the current moment, in reinvented pasts, and in imagined futures.” Jake Phillips writes for our #10Questions, now on our website: massreview.org/2025/08/25/1...

"This is the war . . . Forcing us to leave our homeland in search of a moment of peace, a loaf of bread, or a place to call home." Mariam Mushtaha shares with MR what birthday parties in Gaza once looked like before the genocide. #JusticeforPalestine 🇵🇸 massreview.org/2025/08/22/m...

“What I soon realized, though, is that short poems are harder to translate! Everything must be just perfect, there’s no room for misbehaving.” Catherine Theis writes for our #10Questions, now on our website: massreview.org/2025/08/18/1...

"We no longer eat for enjoyment, but because we don’t want to die of starvation." Hassan Herzallah gives a first-hand account of the forced famine happening in #Gaza for MR #JusticeForPalestine 🇵🇸 massreview.org/2025/08/15/f...

"In Salt House, narrative grows out of the natural landscape, which Hawthorne takes great care to detail, in indulgent, Woolfian passages..." Hana Rivers dives into the recently reissued "Salt House" by Hazel Hawthorne for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/08/14/a...

There is no such thing as full independence, especially when parenting. What you will learn from @jessicaslice.bsky.social in UNFIT PARENT is that we all need help and other people, regardless of our relative able-bodiedness. @themassreview.bsky.social

"Whether Celsius or Centigrade,/It’s damned hot in these late summer days!/Yet you’ll cool (even smile) /When you drink dog days style" Marsha Bryant has new #beer recco's to survive the present heat wave #limericks #beerreview massreview.org/2025/07/31/d...

@themassreview.bsky.social is spot on! @jessicaslice.bsky.social’s UNFIT PARENT is “a penetrating exploration of both the challenges of parenting as a disabled mother in an ableist world and a useful guide to disability justice, and activism.” #DisabilityPride

ARCs just arrived! Reviewers email me or a copy or a link to NetGalley www.corinnedemas.com/books/daught...

"The future of a nation rests on the shoulders of our generation. But in Gaza, Tawjihi has become a test of survival." Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi shares a dispatch on the current state of education in Gaza #JusticeforPalestine: massreview.org/2025/07/18/t...

“...Because I have an exciting and productive working relationship with Amanda Sarasien—an extraordinary literary stylist in her own right—I invited her to collaborate with me.” Elton Uliana & @amandasarasien.bsky.social writes for our #10Questions, on our website: massreview.org/2025/07/14/1...

"Finally, the Dalai Lama entered the hall, one shoulder bared beneath his red robe. With little fanfare, he took his spot behind a table and stood to address his audience." Read an excerpt from Amy Yee's FAR FROM THE ROOFTOP OF THE WORLD on the MR blog: massreview.org/2025/07/11/w...

"Unfit Parent takes readers through the more individual experience of bringing an infant home, and caring for a needy baby while inhabiting a needy body." MR manager Emily Wojcik looks at @jessicaslice.bsky.social's latest book, UNFIT PARENT: massreview.org/2025/07/08/r...

“I am my own first reader because I’ve learned over time that I am my own best critic.” Janis Bultman writes for our #10Questions, available on our website: massreview.org/2025/07/02/1...

Celebrating July with some summer reads from our past contributors that came out in the last three months! Including Elise Paschen, @danleach.bsky.social, Keetje Kuipers, and more! #Summerreads massreview.org/2025/07/01/a...

"I used to look at the sky, the clouds, the stars, just to avoid looking down, where the ground was soaked in blood and destruction." #Palestinian writer Nadera Raied Mushtha reflects on the destruction of Gaza, her home, for MR #JusticeforPalestine: massreview.org/2025/06/27/m...

I am so honored & thrilled my story has been published in this issue! "For the Trees" is about an #autistic artist who tries to help the police solve a child kidnapping. MR has supported marginalized #writers since its inception, a mission that continues to be needed in these dangerous (1/2)

One thing I didn't mention in this review is that Jennifer Nelson is one of (if not the first) poet I heard read in NYC before going to grad school. They're work is such a huge part of why I became a poet.

“From the foothills I would see or have a sense of some of the highest mountain peaks in the world—tourists came for these places, not places like ours, unremarkable in their imagination.” Sumana Roy writes for our #10Questions, available on our website: massreview.org/2025/06/24/1...

"So often we describe the academic in opposition to labor, but Nelson’s collection is candid about university structures." @asaldrake.bsky.social looks at Jennifer Nelson's ON THE WAY TO THE PAINTINGS OF FOREST ROBBERIES for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/06/24/r...

"[F]or us in Gaza—our first breath came with the taste of fear. The world met us with its back turned." A mother and writer from #Gaza shares her poem "Why Must We Be Heroes?" with MR #PalestinianPoetry: massreview.org/2025/06/20/w...

Celebrating #juneteenth2025 with a look back at Ifa Bayeza's review of @CarlHancockRux's 2021 performance at Lincoln Center: massreview.org/node/10128/

"I penciled a faint protest inside the cover and returned it to the shelf — thus began my alteration of the book." #Artist Lisa Huffaker shares some erasure poems made from the pages of old (and outdated) paperbacks with MR: massreview.org/2025/06/18/e...

"[SUGARCANE] tracks how family stories are—or are not—told." Abigail Chabitnoy shares her introduction to screening of the documentary about Indigenous boarding schools and those who survived them: massreview.org/2025/06/17/t...

When you’re not #reading @therumpus.net I strongly suggest you dig into this issue @themassreview.bsky.social

Excited to present José Luís Peixoto's incantatory tale of memory, grief, and longing, together with my co-translator Elton Uliana; what a formidable table of contents! #literatureintranslation #PortugueseLiterature

Our summer issue has arrived! Featuring work by Sumana Roy and Ariel Katz, poets janan alexandra and Marianne Boruch, plus translations of Kim Hyesoon and José Luís Peixoto, plus art by Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich, be sure to get a copy today! massreview.org/issue/volume...

"But it’s also in Palestine that the fight against humiliation and for freedom has been the most sustained." Read an excerpt from Fatima Ouassak's PIRATE ECOLOGY-SO WE CAN BE FREE!, translated by Carolyn Shread on the MR blog: massreview.org/2025/06/13/a...