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Our spring issues is finally here! Featuring work from @stellayywong and Tyler Patton, @row_ie_argument and Hassan Herzallah, plus translations of prose and poetry, with art from Jennifer Strings, find inside the much needed voices for late-winter days: massreview.org/issue/volume-…
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Our summer issue is launching next week, so if you haven't purchased a copy of the spring issue, now's the time! (Don't worry, you can always purchase back issues from our website, but why not get one now!) general-umass.nbsstore.net/m…
Our spring issues is finally here! Featuring work from @stellayywong and Tyler Patton, @row_ie_argument and Hassan Herzallah, plus translations of prose and poetry, with art from Jennifer Strings, find inside the much needed voices for late-winter days: massreview.org/issue/volume-…
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"A teacher asks us to refill the whiteboard markers. We tell him that the remaining ink is not enough for the upcoming classes, and watch his face fall."
Nadera Raied Mushtha on the lack of educational supplies in #Gaza for our #PublicAffairs: massreview.org/2026/06/12/th…
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"That refusal to romanticize is the strongest current throughout When We Are Kin, and it marks the book’s distance from the hopeful coalition-talk it might easily have joined."
Makhai Dickerson-Pells on @mays_kyle's latest for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2026/06/11/re…
ALT A yellow book cover with purple, red, and green floral notes with two faces in the center looking at the viewer. Text reads "When We Are Kin. The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity"
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"Seventy-six years old
and still the heart
opening like a wildflower
through a crack in stone.
"Who told us
that life blooms only once?
Who decided
the soul cannot begin again
after ruin?"
-- Patty Prewitt, 'Resilience' @MassReview
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"Where the pelicans glide overhead/And the whitecaps foam up like beer heads,/There’s a cold one for you./Try a Florida brew/By the shore with your beach blanket spread."
Marsha Bryant shares some late spring brew rhymes to whet your whistle until summer: massreview.org/2026/05/27/be…
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"I was incarcerated for nearly four decades. A letter is never just only a letter—it is a lifeline."
"A single letter may not change a system, but it can change a moment. It can offer comfort on a difficult day, provide a sense of dignity, or simply break the silence."
Patty Prewitt on her letters to immigrant detainees for MR's #PublicAffairs series: massreview.org/2026/05/22/ou…
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"A single letter may not change a system, but it can change a moment. It can offer comfort on a difficult day, provide a sense of dignity, or simply break the silence."
Patty Prewitt on her letters to immigrant detainees for MR's #PublicAffairs series: massreview.org/2026/05/22/ou…
ALT headshot of Patty Prewitt, an older woman with white hair and black shirt.
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Delighted to see the announcement of Lee Upton's THE WITHERS in @MassReview ! Thank you, @MassReview for the shout-out. We're so excited about the release of Lee's novel June 23! massreview.org/2026/05/05/sp…
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"My friend grows basil beside his tent for the same reason our grandparents once carried their keys: to hold on to a home that still lives inside him." - Hassan Herzallah, 'Rafah, My Own Nakba' for @MassReview
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Congrats to MR Prose in Translation editor Corine Tachtiris(@tachtco) on her election as the new board president of @littranslate.bsky.social! Read more here: literarytranslators.org/alta…
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"In Gaza, everyone seems to carry their own version of the Nakba. Mine is Rafah, a city I refuse to speak about in the past tense."
78 years after the Nakba in Palestine, Hassan Herzallah shares his reflection on the homes--and the grief--Gazans inherit.
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"I feel like I’ve always been translating from one culture to the other, one language to another."
EDWARD GUNAWAN talks Bahasa Binan, the connection between gardening and translating, and his process of translating Hendri Yulius Wijaya:
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Submissions for our Documentation issue close Friday!
Read our full call for submissions for our forthcoming issue on Documentation here: open.substack.com/pub/themas…
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"Each day in Gaza is a new battle to navigate the different cacophonies of Israel’s massacres."
Ahmad Sbaih's essay on noise and listening in the ongoing genocide in Gaza:
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Tonight!! Please join us (virtually) in celebrating Caroline Harper New at 7pm EST.
Mark your calendars! Our #virtualreading to celebrate our Halley Prize winner Caroline Harper New is happening Wednesday May 6th at 7pm EST. Register for the event here: eventbrite.com/e/a-virtual-r…
ALT Graphic for event. A picture of the poet resting her head on her hand and wearing a white shirt. Text reads: A Reading with our 2026 Anne Halley Poetry Prize Winner, Caroline Harper New, May 6th at 7pm EST on Zoom
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Looking for a late spring read? Check out the latest drops from past contributors like @bardsbesidebars, @jbrookewrites, Amit Majmudar, and more: massreview.org/2026/05/05/sp…
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Job alert: we are hiring a Social Media and Communications Editor.
Come work with us!
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In celebration of #InternationalWorker'sDay, we thought we'd share this interview with MR's founding editor Jules Chametzky where he talked with historian Bruce Laurie back in 2003 about union activities on campus: massreview.org/wp-content/up…
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"Poetry was something that found me at a time in my life when I was really, really struggling, and it pulled me back from the precipice. It's been a lifeboat for me ever since."
CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ in our latest interview, available as text or audio:
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Mark your calendars! Our #virtualreading to celebrate our Halley Prize winner Caroline Harper New is happening Wednesday May 6th at 7pm EST. Register for the event here: eventbrite.com/e/a-virtual-r…
ALT Graphic for event. A picture of the poet resting her head on her hand and wearing a white shirt. Text reads: A Reading with our 2026 Anne Halley Poetry Prize Winner, Caroline Harper New, May 6th at 7pm EST on Zoom
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