Achievements
MR is known for visual as well as literary arts. Its cover design was initially conceived by the sculptor and graphic artist Leonard Baskin, who contributed work throughout his career. Jerome Liebling – the photographer, filmmaker, and mentor to Ken Burns – was also an MR editor. Recent artists featured in magazine inserts include Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Whitfield Lovell, Anna Schuleit, and Dan Witz.
The Massachusetts Review has published ten Nobel Prize winners, twenty-three Pulitzer Prize winners, and nine U.S. Poet Laureates. Influential individual works from its pages include contributions from Robert Frost, Martin Luther King’s “Legacy of Creative Protest,” Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Black Orpheus,” Chinua Achebe’s “Image of Africa,” Roberto Fernández Retamar’s “Caliban,” and Adrienne Rich’s “Blood, Bread, and Poetry.”
The Council of Literary Magazine and Presses (CLMP, formerly CCLM) website notes that: "he Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM) founded by a board of magazine editors at the suggestion of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), to act as an NEA regranter. The signatories of the original letter of intent to the NEA Reed Whittemore (The Carleton Miscellany, New Republic); Jules Chametzky (The Massachusetts Review); George Plimpton (The Paris Review); Robie Macauley (The Kenyon Review); and William Phillips (The Partisan Review).
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Famous quotes containing the word achievements:
“When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man’s name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)