The Massachusetts Review
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A 200-page quarterly of fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art by emerging and established authors since 1959. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner. Read more at massreview.org!
We're officially one week out from #GivingTuesday2025! Please consider joining us in our mission of platforming writers whose perspectives are desperately needed in these times with a gift!
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We're officially one week out from #GivingTuesday2025! Please consider joining us in our mission of platforming writers whose perspectives are desperately needed in these times with a gift!
We're pleased to announce we will be hosting a virtual #reading with the guest editors of our forthcoming special issue, Incarceration & Families, along with contributors and their families on Dec. 10th at 7:30 pm est! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/incarcerat...
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We're pleased to announce we will be hosting a virtual #reading with the guest editors of our forthcoming special issue, Incarceration & Families, along with contributors and their families on Dec. 10th at 7:30 pm est! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/incarcerat...
Join us for an evening of Palestinian music and storytelling with award-winning novelist, Sahar Mustafah, 📚and a performance by Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble 🎶. Refreshments and light snacks will be served. Free and open to the public!
Date: Friday, Dec 5, 7:00pm
Location: UMass, Amherst
Date: Friday, Dec 5, 7:00pm
Location: UMass, Amherst
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Join us for an evening of Palestinian music and storytelling with award-winning novelist, Sahar Mustafah, 📚and a performance by Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble 🎶. Refreshments and light snacks will be served. Free and open to the public!
Date: Friday, Dec 5, 7:00pm
Location: UMass, Amherst
Date: Friday, Dec 5, 7:00pm
Location: UMass, Amherst
#WesternMass friends! The Massachusetts Review published Sarah Ihmoud and Devin Atallah's searing A World Without Palestinians in February 2024. Sarah Ihmoud is giving a talk at Smith College on Tuesday November 11th titled "Hunger and the Palestinian Womb"
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#WesternMass friends! The Massachusetts Review published Sarah Ihmoud and Devin Atallah's searing A World Without Palestinians in February 2024. Sarah Ihmoud is giving a talk at Smith College on Tuesday November 11th titled "Hunger and the Palestinian Womb"
"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...
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...
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"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...
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...
#WesternMass Friends! Come hear a talk with
professor and scholar Jina B. Kim, in conversation with executive editor Britt Rusert, next Thursday:
professor and scholar Jina B. Kim, in conversation with executive editor Britt Rusert, next Thursday:
September 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
#WesternMass Friends! Come hear a talk with
professor and scholar Jina B. Kim, in conversation with executive editor Britt Rusert, next Thursday:
professor and scholar Jina B. Kim, in conversation with executive editor Britt Rusert, next Thursday:
"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...
Sara Awad mourns Gaza and its spaces of solace in AL-BAQA CAFÉ: massreview.org/2025/08/29/a...
August 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"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...
Sara Awad mourns Gaza and its spaces of solace in AL-BAQA CAFÉ: massreview.org/2025/08/29/a...
Celebrating #juneteenth2025 with a look back at Ifa Bayeza's review of @CarlHancockRux's 2021 performance at Lincoln Center: massreview.org/node/10128/
June 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Celebrating #juneteenth2025 with a look back at Ifa Bayeza's review of @CarlHancockRux's 2021 performance at Lincoln Center: massreview.org/node/10128/
"Though I’ve tried quite a few, / I’ve sought differently brewed / Types of malty. Come taste what I’ve found."
Our #BrewReviewer Marsha Bryant is back with a new list of beer recco's for your malty preferences: massreview.org/2025/05/27/m...
Our #BrewReviewer Marsha Bryant is back with a new list of beer recco's for your malty preferences: massreview.org/2025/05/27/m...
May 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Though I’ve tried quite a few, / I’ve sought differently brewed / Types of malty. Come taste what I’ve found."
Our #BrewReviewer Marsha Bryant is back with a new list of beer recco's for your malty preferences: massreview.org/2025/05/27/m...
Our #BrewReviewer Marsha Bryant is back with a new list of beer recco's for your malty preferences: massreview.org/2025/05/27/m...
"But what touches me even more deeply is how we’ve all become each other’s lifeline in the kitchen."
Maha Hussaini shares a moment of hope and faith and food in the face of the ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid to #Gaza: massreview.org/2025/05/02/s...
Maha Hussaini shares a moment of hope and faith and food in the face of the ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid to #Gaza: massreview.org/2025/05/02/s...
May 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"But what touches me even more deeply is how we’ve all become each other’s lifeline in the kitchen."
Maha Hussaini shares a moment of hope and faith and food in the face of the ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid to #Gaza: massreview.org/2025/05/02/s...
Maha Hussaini shares a moment of hope and faith and food in the face of the ongoing blockade of humanitarian aid to #Gaza: massreview.org/2025/05/02/s...
Happy #InternationalWorkersDay, in solidarity with workers in our Western Mass backyard and around the globe 💪 Celebrating with a note from our founding editor, the late Jules Chametzky, about the forming of a labor union at UMass: massreview.org/volume-44-is...
May 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy #InternationalWorkersDay, in solidarity with workers in our Western Mass backyard and around the globe 💪 Celebrating with a note from our founding editor, the late Jules Chametzky, about the forming of a labor union at UMass: massreview.org/volume-44-is...
Excited to announce Chard deNiord as this year's winner of our Anne Halley Poetry Prize! His poem "This Side of You" will be turned into a broadside and a reading with Chard will be held later this Spring in western Mass! themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/2025-winne...
March 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Excited to announce Chard deNiord as this year's winner of our Anne Halley Poetry Prize! His poem "This Side of You" will be turned into a broadside and a reading with Chard will be held later this Spring in western Mass! themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/2025-winne...
Love to see this #PalestinianLiterature set up at Amherst Books!
February 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Love to see this #PalestinianLiterature set up at Amherst Books!
"The thing about a Tai or a Heather is we don’t tolerate a lot of being pushed around by the world."
Heather Jones(heatherjones.bsky.social) looks at @jendireiter.bsky.social's ORIGIN STORY for #MassReviews: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/poison-cur...
Heather Jones(heatherjones.bsky.social) looks at @jendireiter.bsky.social's ORIGIN STORY for #MassReviews: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/poison-cur...
February 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"The thing about a Tai or a Heather is we don’t tolerate a lot of being pushed around by the world."
Heather Jones(heatherjones.bsky.social) looks at @jendireiter.bsky.social's ORIGIN STORY for #MassReviews: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/poison-cur...
Heather Jones(heatherjones.bsky.social) looks at @jendireiter.bsky.social's ORIGIN STORY for #MassReviews: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/poison-cur...
"For me #Arabic is the first spark. . .although I write in English, I am driven by Arabic sounds, the voices of Imru’ al-Qays, Abu Tammam, al-Mutanabbi and others."
#Poet Ahmad Almallah on language for our #10Questions: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/10-questio...
#Poet Ahmad Almallah on language for our #10Questions: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/10-questio...
February 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"For me #Arabic is the first spark. . .although I write in English, I am driven by Arabic sounds, the voices of Imru’ al-Qays, Abu Tammam, al-Mutanabbi and others."
#Poet Ahmad Almallah on language for our #10Questions: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/10-questio...
#Poet Ahmad Almallah on language for our #10Questions: themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/10-questio...
Happening Friday February 21st, we're hosting an event with Amherst College's Center for Humanistic Inquiry, continuing the discussions of #PalestinianLiterature and Resistance from THE VIEW FROM GAZA, our current Winter issue. massreview.org/node/12197
February 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Happening Friday February 21st, we're hosting an event with Amherst College's Center for Humanistic Inquiry, continuing the discussions of #PalestinianLiterature and Resistance from THE VIEW FROM GAZA, our current Winter issue. massreview.org/node/12197
"I ended up going to the poem to ask questions, to recount the concrete details that contributed to the way I was feeling, to find a structure. . ."
@chelsdingman.bsky.social answers our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12161
@chelsdingman.bsky.social answers our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12161
January 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"I ended up going to the poem to ask questions, to recount the concrete details that contributed to the way I was feeling, to find a structure. . ."
@chelsdingman.bsky.social answers our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12161
@chelsdingman.bsky.social answers our #10Questions: massreview.org/node/12161
Check out Christos Kalli's review of Joseph Fasano's THE LAST SONG OF THE WORLD for #MassReviews #BOAeditions: massreview.org/node/12237
January 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Check out Christos Kalli's review of Joseph Fasano's THE LAST SONG OF THE WORLD for #MassReviews #BOAeditions: massreview.org/node/12237
Thinking about these words from MLK, creative protest, and Thoreau, from our centennial gathering issue published in 1962 #mlkday2025 #resist
January 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thinking about these words from MLK, creative protest, and Thoreau, from our centennial gathering issue published in 1962 #mlkday2025 #resist
"If you like a clean lager (no frills),/ Here’s a beer that might just fit your bill"
MR's resident limerick writer Marsha Bryant has some new brew reviews for the new year: massreview.org/node/12231
MR's resident limerick writer Marsha Bryant has some new brew reviews for the new year: massreview.org/node/12231
January 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"If you like a clean lager (no frills),/ Here’s a beer that might just fit your bill"
MR's resident limerick writer Marsha Bryant has some new brew reviews for the new year: massreview.org/node/12231
MR's resident limerick writer Marsha Bryant has some new brew reviews for the new year: massreview.org/node/12231
Time is running out for #writers to score a five-hour consult with MR's Public Affairs and Prose editor, Shailja Patel: www.32auctions.com/organization...
December 17, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Time is running out for #writers to score a five-hour consult with MR's Public Affairs and Prose editor, Shailja Patel: www.32auctions.com/organization...
#Translators! Bid on a 3-hour cosult with Mass Review's translation editor, Mona Kareen, before Friday. www.32auctions.com/organization...
December 16, 2024 at 5:03 PM
#Translators! Bid on a 3-hour cosult with Mass Review's translation editor, Mona Kareen, before Friday. www.32auctions.com/organization...
Our Winter special issue, The View from Gaza, is here. Check out powerful new poetry by Batool Abu Akleen and Nathalie Handal, fiction from Naomi Shihab Nye and Sahar Mustafah, and art by Maisara Baroud. www.massreview.org
December 13, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Our Winter special issue, The View from Gaza, is here. Check out powerful new poetry by Batool Abu Akleen and Nathalie Handal, fiction from Naomi Shihab Nye and Sahar Mustafah, and art by Maisara Baroud. www.massreview.org
We're excited to announce that our 2024 #OnlineAuction is live! Bid on consultations with MR Poetry and Prose editors, a workshop from Hudson Valley Writers Center, a seminar from the Provincetown Fine Arts Center, and a print by artist Barry Moser: www.32auctions.com/MassReview2024
December 11, 2024 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to announce that our 2024 #OnlineAuction is live! Bid on consultations with MR Poetry and Prose editors, a workshop from Hudson Valley Writers Center, a seminar from the Provincetown Fine Arts Center, and a print by artist Barry Moser: www.32auctions.com/MassReview2024
Our friends at Ploughshares at Emerson College are looking for submissions! pshares.org
December 5, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Our friends at Ploughshares at Emerson College are looking for submissions! pshares.org