If you could listen to the sounds of the country, what would it sound like? Andrew Lovewell's audio essay talks about how life in small town America sounds to a local.

Mattox Roesch reads from his story "Go at Shaktoolik" and speaks with the staff of The Missouri Review about his education as a writer and what makes his characters tick.

Selected audio outtakes from our the print interview which appears in our Spring 2007 issue. Lania Knight talks with David Sedaris, author of the best-selling Barrel fever and Holidays on ice and essay collections such as ...

The winner of The Missouri Review 2006 Editor's Prize for poetry, Derek Mong, discusses art and inspiration, from classical culture to assault weapons.

Richard Sowienski speaks with Prof. Jeff Porter, who talks about the history of the radio essay, provides contemporary examples, and discusses what makes good radio art. Jeff Porter teaches at the University of Iowa.

Timothy Bascom reads a selection from his lyrical memoir of his childhood in Ethiopia.

Sheryl Bernstein reads Susan Vreeland's short story, "A night different from all other nights." (Part 1 of 2)

Staff of The Missouri Review talk with Steve Almond, author of the short story collections, My life in heavy metal and The evil B.B. Chow, as well as Candyfreak : a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America.

Kerry Hardie reads her poem "Sheep's fair day."

The panel discussion, facilitated by Noor Azizan-Gardner of the Chancellor's Diversity Institute, centered on the students' cultural and educational experiences with libraries. This included their childhood memories of ...

Josh Kryah reads some of his poems and speaks with TMR's Katy Didden about his work.

Jude Nutter's first collection, Pictures of the Afterlife (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), was published in 2002. The Curator of silence (University of Notre Dame) won the Ernest Sandeen Prize from the University of Notre Dame ...

"On this Missouri Review podcast, we're pleased to feature a selection from our ongoing project to produce audio editions of each of our issues. Today, we present 'Interregnum' by Christina Hutchins, which was selected as ...

"On this Missouri Review podcast we conclude our presentation of the winners of our 2008 Audio/Video competition with Judith Sloan's 'Dayenu,' the winner in the Narrative Essay category."--Publisher's Web site.

"On this Missouri Review podcast, we're pleased to present 'Shakespeare in Black and White,' by Richard Paul, which was the first runner-up in the documentary category of our 2007 Audio Competition. Richard Paul was also ...

This podcast features the winners in the voice-only flash fiction category. Josh McDonald earns first place in the flash fiction, voice-only category with his submission, "Lost." It's a comic, surreal story of a madman on ...

"In this installment of The Missouri Review podcast, we feature the first place and first runner-up entries to the Voice-Only Literature (Poetry) category of our 2007 Audio Competition. Both of these awards go to poems by ...

"This episode of our podcast features the remaining runner-up entries in the Voice-only literature: creative nonfiction category. The second runner-up was Randolph Jordan, with his entry 'A death in the family,' and the ...

"On this Missouri Review podcast, we're happy to share 'The Secret pianos of Manhattan,' by Ken Cormier, which was the 2nd runner-up in the Documentary category our of 2007 audio competition. Ken Cormier is editor and ...

"On this episode of our podcast, we begin our presentation of a particularly exciting category from 2007 Audio Competition, the 10-minute plays. Today we have the first place winner, Kris Saknussemm, with his play 'The ...