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Spring 2008
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MARY Magazine is the online arts journal sponsored by Saint Mary's College of California's MFA in Creative Writing program. Since 2002 MARY has published contemporary poetry, prose, and new media arts from a diverse group of established artists, including: Peter Orner, Brian Doyle, Gillian Conoley, Bruce Smith, Elizabeth Robinson, Nora Pierce, Rebecca Curtis, Brian Glaser, Carol Snow, Maria Hummel, as well as talented emerging writers. MARY Magazine has conducted interviews with award-winning writers: Michael Palmer, Pico Ayer, Andrew Sean Greer, Nick Flynn, Phil Jenks, Cristina Garcia, Susan Steinberg, Michael Pollen, John D'Agata, Jo Ann Beard, Mary Roach, Forrest Gander, and Chris Abani.

Student-run, MARY Magazine grants MFA candidates the opportunity to work on all aspects of a small-press literary journal, while publishing some of the Bay Area's most prestigious writers and writing.

Recent Prose

Spring Garden
by Edward Schwarzschild

Apostolos
by Tom Bissell

It’s Not Even Breakfast Anymore
by Steve Almond

Shame and Therapy
by Sonja Livingston

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Recent Interviews

Tao Lin
Interviewed by Sara Mumolo

Lynn Freed
Interviewed by Thomas Cooney

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Recent Poetry

that was bad; i shouldn't have done that and are you ok?
by Tao Lin

Happiness is, Wyatt Earp, Cavemen, and Straight-Up Alpha-Chicking Becomes Electra
by K. Silem Mohammad

Chocolate Coconut Makes My Chest Feel Hollow, Invitation to Glazed Street, and Altoids
by Jack Morgan

The Naturalist, & What Cover and in a quieting
by Hillary Gravendyk

Marvelous Independence of the Human Gaze, You May if You Wish, and For Whom, No Less Than For Whales
by Bronwen Tate

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Recent Reviews

Dismantling the Logic Machine: Brenda Shaughnessy’s Human Dark with Sugar
Reviewed by Sharon Zetter

How the Dead Dream
Reviewed by Patrick Holian

Lunging Toward Bethlehem:
Prageeta Sharma’s Infamous Landscapes

Reviewed by Sarah Fattig

Playing
Reviewed by Jennie Durant

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MARY Magazine welcomes work from established and emerging writers, as well as new media and sound artists. Our only standard is excellence. To contribute a story, read our submission guidelines.