Across the book, and across the many different types of poems within it, Malech uses her expert sense of metaphor, timing, and relationships among words to strike a sort of wry, sideways-glancing balance between celebrating happiness and recognizing pain.
Wit and Wisdom: Dora Malech’s Balancing Act Flourish Read More »
MQR is pleased to announce that A. Van Jordan has selected Bret Shepard’s “Here But Nowhere” as the winner of the Goldstein Poetry Prize. From Alaska, Bret Shepard has lived throughout the Pacific and Arctic coasts. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of English at Cabrini University. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
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When it came to Darren’s ascent/descent, I wanted to throw into question what it means to win if you’re losing parts of yourself along the way. Or, stated differently, what the cost of success is, and how much people, especially Black and brown people, need to pay in order to achieve it.
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“What I am trying to say is that place can be simulated, but the simulation has limits. My Dad was born in Detroit, and he was—and remains—a fan of the Detroit Lions.
The Detroit Lions are perhaps the worst team in NFL history—the first team to have a winless season.”
On the Creation of Other Worlds: A Response to “Against Leaving Him” by Christine Rhein Read More »
Read MQR Reader Connor Greer’s response to Christine Rhein’s “Against Leaving Him” here. “Against Leaving Him” appears in our Winter 2021 Issue. You can purchase the issue here. Against Leaving Him “. . . [Ric] Hoogestraat was never much of a game enthusiast before he discovered Second Life. But since February, he’s been spending six
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The narratives in each of the 16 stories in this collection vacillate between the micro—insects, rodents, birds, plants, and the macro—life, death, civilization, humanity. Can Xue’s prose, too, vacillates between playful turns of phrase and deadly serious subject matter to provide a constantly shifting narrative experience.
Through her practice of speculative past-making and insistent futurity, Alsous lays bare the impossibility of belonging in the world as it is now.
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The music in this book is generated by a constellation of fellow artists and history makers that Ali has gathered across time and space.
Breaking Glass, Breaking Silence: A Review of The Voice of Sheila Chandra Read More »
No one can fully understand the dissolution of marriage outside of the couple. The little ways that couples cut and cut and cut at each other are too individualized. Yet this song was such a deep embodiment of my feelings about my marriage at the time.
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I’ve often heard that a story’s ending should change the way the reader sees everything that has led to that point. It’s the moment when the story’s pieces snap into place, when all the seemingly unrelated scenes become unified in the climactic light.
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