Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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April 26, 2012

Mix Tape: “Recipes like poems are roadmaps”

By Maggie Smith

Farmers have Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. “The working man” has Springsteen. But what about struggling creatives—dancers, artists, actors, musicians, writers, designers? “The final irony is that these are times […]

December 29, 2011

Mix Tape: Another Year’s Best List

By Maggie Smith

For my last post of the year, here’s a look back at ten of my favorite literary tidbits from Mix Tape 2011—the sublime, the ridiculous, and a few things not […]