MQR is pleased to announce to the winners of our 2019 Prizes: The Goldstein Poetry Prize: Selected by Linda Gregerson Carolyn Oliver’s “Reading Szymborska Under a Harvest Moon” Among a richly varied group of finalists, “Reading Szymborska under a Harvest Moon” stood out for its flexible mastery of syntax, imagery, and sonic sequencing. Nor was […]
Announcing the Winners of MQR’s 2019 Prizes Read More »
Poems contain information, but they’re not about information. A poem is not about an event; it is an event.
A Creature of the Senses: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky Read More »
I want to give readers room to be imaginative within the space of my stories. We’re cocreating a story together as writer and reader.
The Past is a Living Thing: An Interview with Rion Amilcar Scott Read More »
The Memory Police is a work of extraordinary artistic defiance, an exploration, urgent and seething, of the abrasive relationship between the role of dissidence in shaping public consciousness and the modern state’s totalitarian proclivities to create a political order founded on the organizational principle of fear.
The Tyrant in His Laboratory: A Review of The Memory Police Read More »
I don’t know if I’m writing a love song or a lament
This Land, This Water Read More »
Until now, the lakes and life had been generous in their gifts, and abundant. Water buoyed us. People I loved lived. I handled the loss like someone who’d gone around believing the things she cherishes would be around forever.
Big Water, Little Water Read More »
On being introduced to new art—ahem, content—via a short story about street hip-hop and crate digging, among other things . Before I knew it, I was surrounded. They were all around me, pressing closer and closer, and their eyes were piercing. Every time I turned my head, it seemed I was making eye contact with
(Not) Content Not Curated Read More »
Do they leave together, the language and the last breath?
Maamwimaajaan ina Anishinaabemoyaanh miinwaa neseyaanh?
Ultimately, The Ungrateful Refugee is an instruction book in how to be humane.
