The View from There
They skim
the trees along
the road we’re cycling down,
and rise on billowing gusts across
the countryside
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Announcing the Opening of the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize
The Michigan Quarterly Review is pleased to announce that you can now submit directly to the Goldstein Poetry Prize. The 2019 prize will be judged by Linda Gregerson. The winner will be announced in Spring 2020. Guidelines can be found below. You can submit via our submittable page. The prize is named in honor of
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An interview with Zara Lisbon
Truthfully, when I was about eight years old I got really obsessed with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and I got it in my mind that if I could write a play that they starred in, I could meet them.
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“To Conjure Up the Dead”
It’s hard to commune with the dead when you are attending to your body. But didn’t I see my companion cry back there, in front of the suitcases? Did he smell the odor from human bodies?
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Island; I-land: Eye-Land: Caliban on Sugar Island
But golden eras—like edens—end. Even the magic of Prospero’s island, we assume, departs with him, for better or worse. For Sugar Island, much like Prospero’s, the beginning of the final days came with a shipwreck.
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Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treat Machu Picchu
Centuries ago, laborers raised tons of stone without the wheel to build Machu Picchu; Pizarro and his army of conquistadores missed it, leaving the stones untouched. Now, hands snap towers,crack walls, wreck temples, stuffing sticky rubble into mouths. Marshmallow Rice Krispie Treat Machu Picchu lies in ruins.
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RESIST: A 1968 Interview with Denise Levertov
I feel that it is poetry that has led me into political action and not political action which has caused me to write poems.
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