Currency
Like the poem’s subject, “Currency” lulls the reader into a false sense of comfort.
Dangerously Close to Living: A Review of Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen
At times, Nguyen allows us to see beyond the brother into the world of ghosts conceived by exile—just as ghosts exist between the world of the living and the dead, the placeless exist between spaces of belonging and may require the same effort of remembering.
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“Can Poetry Hurt Us?”: An Interview with Patricia Smith
I wanted some people that I didn’t personally know either and just thought, well, each one of these people has a mother who may or may not still be with us, who may be forced to still live in the area where they lost their child, someplace that they walk past every day. And they’re out of our hands.
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MQR Issue 60:1, Winter 2021
Announcing the release of MQR 60:1, Our 60th Anniversary Issue Cover art by Eduardo Paolozzi, courtesy of UMMA and Diane Kirkpatrick Table of Contents Foreword Khaled Mattawa: Celebrating 60 Years of MQR Fiction Alice Adams: Complicities Kalisha Buckhanon: Card Parties Marilyn Chin: Round-Eyes L.C. Fiore: Bangalore Mary Gaitskill: The Woman Who Knew Judo Nguyen Viet
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Meet Our Contributors: Issue 60:1 Winter 2021
AI (1947–2010) was an American poet. She published eight collections of poetry, including Killing Floor (1979), winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Sin (1986), winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; and Vice: New and Selected Poems (1999), which won the National Book Award for
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Celebrating 60 years of MQR
This special issue celebrates Michigan Quarterly Review’s sixtieth anniversary, a remarkable milestone for any publication, let alone one devoted exclusively to literature and the arts. A special selection of previously published works was one of the first things we decided on for celebrating our anniversary. For several years at MQR we have been exploring and
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Two Poems
Jaguar Song —Just after you sign and envision building homes on this tract you smell me in the dark know that I move through this terrain at night though you only think of building and selling even now you believe you can borrow my spirit by wearing a mask of my face
Announcing the 2020 Winners of the Lawrence Prize and the Page Davidson Clayton Prize
Announcing the 2020 Winners of the Lawrence Prize and the Page Davidson Clayton Prize
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Kappa: Winner of the Lawrence Fiction Prize
I returned to the lake. The lake was quiet, desolate. I collected a smooth stone from the river and rolled it in my palm. I put its cold surface to my lips. I watched the shiny backs of frogs in a patina of water rings. But Mother’s voice wouldn’t escape my head: The kappa grabs children’s feet.
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Letters from Daddy: Winner of the Page Davidson Clayton Prize for Emerging Poets
Letters from Daddy (29) 1. My love child of song, child of some place names aren’t meant — needed, if you can hear me in this prison yard, then I sing prayer like gospel in a four wall monstrosity of scribbled letters. + Mothers are apricot trees to pick from and fathers are mountains you
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