Announcing the release of MQR 60:1, Our 60th Anniversary Issue
Cover art by Eduardo Paolozzi, courtesy of UMMA and Diane Kirkpatrick
Table of Contents
Foreword
Khaled Mattawa: Celebrating 60 Years of MQR
Fiction
- Alice Adams: Complicities
- Kalisha Buckhanon: Card Parties
- Marilyn Chin: Round-Eyes
- L.C. Fiore: Bangalore
- Mary Gaitskill: The Woman Who Knew Judo
- Nguyen Viet Ha translated by Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Alec Holcombe: Rain On My Wedding Day
- Alice Mattison: Brooklyn Sestina
- Joyce Carol Oates: How Do You Like Your Meat?
- Patricio Pron translated by Kathleen Heil: Fish & Mountains
- Shao Wang: The Pianist in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot
Nonfiction
- Margaret Atwood: The Female Body
- Stephen Brockmann: The Cultural Meaning of the Gulf War
- Thomas J. Cottle: The Reflection of Values: A Response to Toni Morrison
- Charles Johnson: A Phenomenology of the Black Body
- Thurgood Marshall: A New Era in Human Rights
- Paul Monette: Mustering
- Toni Morrison: Can Values Be Taught in the University
- Tiya Miles: Obama and Big History
- Lucia Perillo: Medicine
- Eileen Pollack: The House of the World
- Reginald Shepherd: The Other’s Other: Against Identity Poetry
- Tobin Siebers: My Withered Limb
- Ilan Stavans: Translation and Identity
- Ted Swedenberg: Seeing Double: Palestinian/American Histories of the Kufiya
- María de los Angeles Torres: Reconciling With Our Enemies, Reconciling With Ourselves
Poetry
- Ai: The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- David Baker: Midwest Eclogue
- Bertolt Brecht translated by Jon Swan: The Necessity of Propaganda
- Victoria Chang: Currency
- Hayan Charara: Lucy
- Wanda Coleman: Casting Call
- Martha Collins: Birmingham
- Martín Espada: A Million Ants Swarming Through His Body
- Edward Field: To My Country
- Diane Glancy: Meatloaf
- Laurence Goldstein: A Room in California, 1954
- Lorna Goodison: The Mango of Poetry
- Mark Halliday: To You in 2052
- francine j. harris: What You’d Find Buried in the Dirt Under Charles F. Kettering Sr. High School
- Robert Hayden: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Edward Hirsch: Devil’s Night
- Lawrence Joseph: News Back Even Further Than That
- Paulina Kaldas: Bird Lessons
- Jen Karetnick: Custody
- Caroline Kim: Love, In This Century
- Carilda Oliver Labra translated by Ruth Behar: After Papa….
- Philip Levine: My Grave
- Campbell McGrath: Capitalist Poet #57
- Pablo Neruda translated by Harry Thomas: To Silvestre Revueltas of Mexico, in His Death
- Naomi Shihab Nye: Pins
- Mary Oliver: At Round Pond
- Linda Pastan: Prognosis
- Robert Pinsky: The Material
- Jacques J. Rancourt: Backyard Rock
- Christine Rhein: Against Leaving Him
- Adrienne Rich: Alternating Current
- Excilia Saldana translated by Ruth Behar and David Frye: From My Name (A Family Anti-Elegy)
- Charles Simic: To the One Upstairs
- Danez Smith: I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense
- Cathy Song: Shrinking the Uterus
- Wisława Szymborska translated by Rick Hilles and Maja Jablońska: A Little on the Soul
- Lewis Turco: Terzanelle
- Kathleen Winter: Dreamland Saint
- Leonard Wolf: On Permanence
- Charles Wright: As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn Into Light
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Kala Gave Me Anykine Advice Especially About Filipinos When I Moved to Pahala
- Yevgény Yevtushénko translated by James Ragan: Twenty-First Century
- Zhu Zhu translated by Dong Li: Inland
You can purchase the Winter 2021 issue of MQR here.
