Seeking, cultivating, and amplifying a wide range of artistic expressions that interrogate the world and expand the imagination.
Current Issue | 64.2: Spring
2025
Guest edited by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, our Spring 2025 Issue: Memory and Migrations features poetry by George Abraham, Aqua Ansong, Victoria Chang, Safia Elhillo, Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras, and Roberto Tejada; fiction by Savannah Balmir, Beatriz Brenes Mora, and Daria Rose; nonfiction by janan alexandra, Stefani J. Alvarez-Brüggmann, Mary Zhou, and many more.
Spring 2025 online folio
Work from the Memory and Migrations Issue exclusive to our website.
Foreshadow Work
It’s Safe to Say
Summa
Homeland’ | Class of Admission
“Polygons” and “The Graves” from Gentry: Or the Name of a Tree with No Memory
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New at MQR Online
Recent web exclusives from the Michigan Quarterly Review.
From the Archive: Collide
Against Taste: On the Craft of Criticism
Devastating. The Damages that “Too Old” Inflicts on Politics and Society
Untranslatable Intimacies: A Review of Ann Jäderlund’s Lonespeech
Hobbyhorse: Excerpt from “My Childhood in Pieces”
Bringing Home the Broken Things: Nancy Miller Gomez and the Poetry of Inconsolable Objects
From the Archive: Someone Like You
Sittenfeld Superfan
Confidant and Conduit: An Interview with Jared Lemus
Complicating Truth: An Interview with Emily Greenberg
Winter 2025 issue
Read excerpts and full pieces of fiction, essays, and poetry from our Winter 2025 issue.
The Florist
Ditch and Drain
The Ant and the Grasshopper
On Hunger
My Left Hand, Unholy
Blue Skies, Birdsong
Insult
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About MQR
Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is an interdisciplinary and international literary journal, combining distinctive voices in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as works in translation. The flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan, our magazine embraces creative urgency and cultural relevance, aiming to challenge conventions and address long-overdue conversations. As we continue to promote an expansive and inclusive vision, we seek work from established and emerging writers with diverse aesthetics and experiences.
