MQR Sound

Some things are better seen and heard. Listen to author-recorded performances of poems from recent MQR issues.

Winter 2025 | Laurie Blauner Reads "The Florist" – MQR Sound

A note about the work “The Florist” from Laurie Blauner for the Michigan Quarterly Review's Winter 2025 Issue: This is a longer poem than I had previously written. It’s part of a new poetry manuscript and ends the section titled “An Occupation” which includes many different jobs. I had noticed several florist shops in Seattle and imagined working in one. When I wrote the poem it just kept continuing, encompassing more and more. 
  1. Winter 2025 | Laurie Blauner Reads "The Florist"
  2. Winter 2025 | Amy Benson Reads "Ditch and Drain, Fill and Build"
  3. Winter 2025 | Hema Padhu Reads "The Ant and the Grasshopper"
  4. Winter 2025 | Diya Abbas Reads "on hunger"
  5. Winter 2025 | Sanjana Thakur Reads "My Left Hand, Unholy"
  6. Winter 2025 | Leyla Loued-Khenissi Reads "Blue Skies, Birdsong"
  7. Winter 2025 | Martín Espada Reads "Insult"
  8. Fall 2024 | Marissa Davis Reads "Excerpts from Skyside"
  9. Fall 2024 | Jacob Rogers Reads "The Easy Part"
  10. Summer 2024 | Terry Ann Thaxton Reads "Mother of Stone"