This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we talk to writer Lia Purpura about her essays and poems. Lia Purpura is the author of three collections of poems (King baby, Stone sky lifting, and The brighter the veil), three ...

This podcast is an interview with poet and essayist Danielle Deulen. The Missouri Review's Managing Editor, Michael Nye, sat down to talk with Danielle about her poetry collection, Lovely Asunder, and her memoir, The Riots.

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we continue our First Books Series by talking to fiction writer Fiona McFarlane. Listen in as McFarlane reads an excerpt and then discusses her novel, The night guest, which was ...

Today on the The Missouri Review Soundbooth Podcast we are proud to feature our runner-up in the poetry category of the 2014 Audio Contest, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie.

Elijah Burrell is The Missouri Review's 2012 Audio Contest runner-up in the poetry category.

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we talk to Molly Gaudry, founder of The Lit Pub. In this podcast Gaudry talks about the team effort of starting a small press and the importance of goodwill in the literary ...

"Consider the jellyfish," a submission to last years contest by Elliot Rambach and Abby Wendle is a great example of one sub genre of humor writing that we'd love to see submitted to the new category in this years contest. ...

Rachel Yoder is The Missouri Review's 2011 Audio Contest winner in the prose category.

Lulu Miller is The Missouri Review's 2011 Audio Contest runner-up in the professionally-recorded documentary category.

Amy Schleunes is the 2011 Missouri Review's Audio Contest first runner-up in the self-recorded documentary category.

Rose Whitmore is the 2013 winner of The Missouri Review's Peden Prize for "The Queen of pacific tides." This recording of Ms. Whitmore's reading was made at Orr Street Studios in Columbia, Missouri on September 30, 2013.

This episode of our podcast features three runners-up in the Voice-only poetry category of our 2007 Audio Competition. In 'The Golden lesson,' second runner-up Susan Somers-Willet gives an engaging performance of a poem ...

Kris Saknussemm takes the first runner-up position in the Narrative Essay category with his piece entitled "Cahoots." Saknussem has won first prizes in the Boston Review and River Styx short fiction contests, and he has ...

Our first installment of the Audio Competition winners features the first place recipient of the Narrative Essay category, Judith Sloan. The essay, "Sweeping statements," is a first-person author-read account of teaching ...

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 Soundbooth Podcast presents and interview with poets Tyehimba Jess, author of 'leadbelly' and 'Olio', and F. Douglas Brown, author of 'Zero to three'. Both poets are closely affiliated with Cave Canem: A Home for Black ...