Current Issue · Numbers 1 & 2 · 2025
The editors are proud to share the work in Volume 45 of The Worcester Review, which features 35 poems and 10 pieces of fiction. The feature section highlights Worcester’s long poetic legacy, with scholarly essays on six Worcester poets alongside brand-new poems inspired by the places and people of the city’s literary past. You can also find winners of the Frank O’Hara Prize and the WCPA College Poetry Contest.
December 18, 2025
Volume 45 of The Worcester Review is on its way to contributors and subscribers. The editors are proud to share the work in this issue, which features 35 poems and 10 pieces of fiction. The feature section highlights Worcester’s long poetic legacy, with scholarly…
December 7, 2023
The Worcester Review is delighted to announce its 2023 nominations for the Pushcart Prize, all of which appear in Volume 44. Poetry “Connective Tissue” by Rae Gouirand “rabbit” by Kathleen Hellen “curriculum development” by Matthew E. Henry “unplug the microwave”…
October 3, 2023
Volume 44 of The Worcester Review is on its way to contributors and subscribers. The editors are very proud to share the work in this issue–including the review’s first all-flash fiction section, a feature folio of writing by Clemente students,…
From the Archives
The tiny boat floats down the river, bobbing inconsequential in the pull of the tide. Its little paper sail flutters in the thin breeze a piece of folded newspaper advertising newborn collie puppies for sale on one side a half-sheet of recent obituaries on the other. I can almost see my grandmother’s small, black-and-white photograph from the shore where I stand, my tiny daughter’s warm hand in mine watching our little boat as it’s swept away, perhaps as far as the ocean. My daughter chatters excitedly about the exotic places our boat might see, far-away places my grandmother never got to visit, but talked of often.
From Volume 40
