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The English Revolution at University of Houston
UH Teaching Fellows were earning well below the poverty line ($9,600.00 for MFAs and $11,200 for PhDs) for teaching a course load comparable to a full-time faculty member. Bogged down by classroom demands, our own coursework, and the two, three, four and sometimes five other jobs many of us were forced to work to make ...
The Spring Issue Is Almost Here!
Tony Hoagland special feature, art and fiction by Lou Beach, and a slew of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction!
Brattleboro Literary Festival Flash Fiction Contest!
GMR will sponsor and judge an exciting--and FREE!--summer flash fiction contest. Submit up to three original unpublished works of fiction of 1000 words or less. The winner will be published in GMR and be invited to read at the Brattleboro Literary Festival in October!
Evanescence: The Elaine Race Massacre (Part 1 of 4)
I can indeed conflate the convincing pieces that led to the conclusion Lonnie took part in the Elaine Race Massacre, but I cannot reconcile my love for Lonnie and his apparent views about and role in racism, as practiced in the Arkansas Delta by whites during the first part of the 20th century.
GMR Is a U.S. Poet Laureate Pick!
We are thrilled to announce that U.S. Poet Laureate and GMR past contributor Natasha Trethewey has chosen Green Mountains Review as one of the seven small press publications that she will focus on and promote as she spreads the holy gospel of poetry across the country.Current Issue – Vol. XXV, No. 2
Poetry
Milwaukee Was Ugly
STEVE LANGAN is the author of Meet Me at the Happy Bar, Notes on Exile and Other Poems, and Freezing. He lives in Omaha and on Cliff Island, Maine.
Fiction
Back Among the Superheroes
Jens laughed and pulled Davis to him. Because of the glass in his hand he could only hug with one arm. Davis put his face to the side against Jens’s shoulder. The drink slopped onto the floor. The floor was wood, heavily varnished and gleaming as if mopped moments before, and the liquid sat there just as it fell.
Essays
Why Write? 17: Tracy Thomas
We live past it, it wears out, it’s bound for nowhere and whatever-it-is is beyond words. That’s what makes it kind of heroic.
Book Reviews
A Review of Gaze by Christopher Howell
Through color-soaked memories of childhood filled with characters we come to recognize, this collection is a palpable meditation on the lived life and mortality, a collection in which Howell is “holding our lives / in front of ourselves like/robins’ eggs.”
Recent News
The Spring Issue Is Almost Here!
Tony Hoagland special feature, art and fiction by Lou Beach, and a slew of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction!
Brattleboro Literary Festival Flash Fiction Contest!
GMR will sponsor and judge an exciting–and FREE!–summer flash fiction contest. Submit up to three original unpublished works of fiction of 1000 words or less. The winner will be published in GMR and be invited to read at the Brattleboro Literary Festival in October!
GMR Is a U.S. Poet Laureate Pick!
We are thrilled to announce that U.S. Poet Laureate and GMR past contributor Natasha Trethewey has chosen Green Mountains Review as one of the seven small press publications that she will focus on and promote as she spreads the holy gospel of poetry across the country.