Skin
We were wrong. It is important to acknowledge that. Wrong, that is, to think, imperiously, that he needed fixing or saving. That is the inherent logic, though, of the multiracial adoptive family, where salvage and repair discourses abound.
MQR Issue 60:2, Spring 2021
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
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Foreword: Celebrating Our Emerging Writers
In the words of Stephanie Glazier, we, having gotten to what seems like a cultural and political impasse, are seeking “something that means / not only sings praise.” And as if responding to the same impulse, Yun Wei tells us that we need to go beyond our familiar routes or roads, we must invent ways of moving and growing that will carry us with them and assure us that “this is not the end.”
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Meet Our Contributors: Issue 60:2 Spring 2021
ANITHA AHMED earned her MFA from Boston University in 2019, where she was awarded the Florence E. Randall Graduate Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in CALYX, Bodega, and Bat City Review, and her poetry has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles, where she is
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Creating Memory: An Interview with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
I think what gave me the ability to be able to talk about the event is imagining it and imbuing that with my present ideas of lyric imagination and surrealism. I didn’t know what surrealism was when I was five, but I have the material to imagine it as surreal now.
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Liminal Creations: An Interview with The Cupboard Pamphlet
We like writing that inhabits its own textual body with weight and force. We are committed to investing in emerging and diverse authors, and we make an effort to discover those with individual voices and nonpareil perspectives.
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Pins
Nye flawlessly writes about the power in prayer, in letting go of rage and the past, that by the end of the poem, we are left thinking of our loved ones and what we’ve learned from them – and how that knowledge lives in our bodies.
Moving the Perspective: An Interview with Joan Silber
The first book that I wrote when I was vastly younger than I am now was based on my own family, but the point of view it took was my mother’s, a character, whom I would offer was often at odds with in real life. So I wanted to make that jump as something that writing could do, and I think I got some of that idea from Chekhov, whose writing I loved.
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Shrinking the Uterus
Nothing screams love more than food, and Song flawlessly executes the poem’s richness through her sound and imagery.
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Living Against Unlivability: A Review of A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
In A History of My Brief Body, Billy-Ray Belcourt blends the literary and the theoretical into a fragmentary and irreducible collection of vignettes and lyric essays on cultivating love, self, and freedom while indigenous and queer.