Announcing the release of MQR 60:2, Our Emerging Voices Issue
Cover art by Eduardo Paolozzi, courtesy of UMMA and Diane Kirkpatrick
Table of Contents
Forward
Khaled Mattawa: Celebrating Our Emerging Writers
Fiction
Anitha Ahmed: Couplets by Ghalib
Samantha Barron: Everybody Wins
Anu Kandikuppa: Everything is Going to Come
Annell López: The End of the World as We Know It
Nonfiction
Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom: Elegy for Fox Island
Risë Kevalshar Collins: Shabda
Mette Harrison: The Year I Was a Boy
Justin Hunt: Cold War Prairie
Eliza Grace Martin: Stillborn
Michael McAllister: Off-Grid
Poetry
Yasmeen Alkishawi: Billie Eilish Breaks the Bold in her Baggy Clothes: What They Don’t Tell You About Covering Up; On Google Maps, Palestine is Nowhere to be Found
Darius Atefat-Peckham: This Happens
Kristene Kaye Brown: Why I Stopped Watering the Plants
Lyn Li Che: Trying to Move On
Christian J. Collier: In the Spectral Hour
Johnna St Cyr: My Windshield Saga (Version 8 Because Every Time I Write a Draft the Damage is Worse Than the Estimate)
James Dunlap: Since My Daddy Died, I’ve Embraced the Notion of Ghosts; Folk Ways
Stephanie Glazier: Would That I Were
Spencer Hupp: Twilight Devotional, Southwest Little Rock
David Hutcheson: Crow
Amanda Larson: 22, Without Child
Yuxi Lin: Gametes
Thomas Renjilian: To Draw a Straight Line
Katie Schmid: Apartment Hunting
Sreshtha Sen: Summer is Upon Us
Samyak Shertok: The Tea-Maker
Erin Slaughter: At the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River
Larisa Svirsky: Little Match Girl
Dujie Tahat: Per Reports from the Southern Border
Janelle Tan: Wherever We are From, Wherever We are Going
Innas Tsuroiya: Ghazal: Like Flowers
Yun Wei: Into the Moraine
You can purchase the Spring 2021 issue here.
