Announcing the release of MQR 59:3 Cover Art courtesy of Abdelgader Bader Table of Contents Fiction Sheldon Costa: Wolf Miguel Gomes, translated by Charles LeBel: Story That Kills You Glen Hirshberg: Over Lance Larsen: Nothing as Dirty as a Richard Nixon Hand Lorraine M. López: Beloved Imposters Sydney Rende: Lopsided Nonfiction Amanda Chemeche: Chengdu Glenda […]
MQR Issue 59:3, Summer 2020 Read More »
E. KRISTIN ANDERSON is a poet and glitter enthusiast living mostly at a Starbucks somewhere in Austin, Texas. She is the author of nine chapbooks, including Behind, All You’ve Got; 17 seventeen XVII; We’re Doing Witchcraft; Fire in the Sky; and Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night.
Meet Our Contributors: Issue 59:3 Summer 2020 Read More »
On discovery—discovery is one of the most important parts of poetry to me and one of the things that keeps me continually engaged is what can the poem teach us, and what can we discover throughout it and how can we use the poem as a point of reflection?
Discovery and Poetry: Interview with Marlin M. Jenkins by Katie Willingham Read More »
Katie Jo knew that Ima was not her actual mother because she didn’t hurt as much or soothe as much, but she was better than nothing because nothing was unbearable.
Prelude to the Pink Book Lectures Read More »
Issue 1: Becoming (Ed. Elinam Agbo) is available now. Read a selection from Elinam Agbo’s introduction below, and read the full issue here. Dear Reader, At the end of every academic year, the staff of Michigan Quarterly Review gathers over pizza to chat and to dream. There’s usually a marker board (or a long pad
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Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase is not a record to bob’s one head to, despite its occasionally head-bobbing moments. It is a record to contemplate, to be experienced, to envelop; it is a record to be played in response to and as a guard against the worst the world has to offer. It is very beautiful.
Hohn’s careful explorations of the subjects presented to him by his new place also become markers along his own process of the intellectual and personal discovery of his psychological inner coast.
Attempts at Understanding: A Review of The Inner Coast: Essays by Donovan Hohn Read More »
There is pain in both wanting to have a baby and not wanting to have one, in both being and not being pregnant. This is not to say women are defined by motherhood by any means, but like ballet, it provides a lens through which to see the pressures of womanhood in one small slice: our bodies are public, commented on when they take up space, subject to scrutiny and criticism, and there is not enough structure or support around womanhood.
Our Bodies Are Public: An Interview with Ellen O’Connell Whittet Read More »
Black Lives Matter. The staff of MQR has chosen to give $500 to the Detroit Justice Center & $500 to the Detroit and MI chapter of the National Lawyers Guild as an expression of support for people in our community struggling to combat police brutality against Black Americans. In the coming days, we will be
A Short Statement from MQR on Black Lives Matter Read More »
O California, don’t you know the sun is only a god/if you learn to starve for him? I’m bored with the ocean
I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense Read More »
