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.
"If you seek to understand this metamorphosis, 'The Selected Letters of John Berryman' can help. What greets us here, as often as not, is a parody of a poet. Watch him fumble with the mechanisms of the everyday, 'ghoulishly inefficient about details and tickets and visas and trains and money and hotels.'"
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“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."
