Seeking, cultivating, and amplifying a wide range of artistic expressions that interrogate the world and expand the imagination.
Current Issue | 64.3: Summer
2025
Our Summer 2025 issue features poetry by Talvikki Ansel, DeeSoul Carson (winner of the 2025 Laurence Goldstein Prize), Deema K. Shehabi, G.C. Waldrep, and Holly Zhou; fiction by Joy Castro, Perry Janes, Noel Quiñones (winner of the 2025 Jesmyn Ward Prize), and Daniel Tam-Claiborne; nonfiction by Ann Pedone, Mayookh Barua, Matt Young, and many more.
Spring 2025 online folio
Work from the Memory and Migrations Issue exclusive to our website.
War is Always Silent Until It’s Done
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.
LEYE ADENLE WINS THE 2024 LAWRENCE PRIZE
AN INTERVIEW WITH ILYA KAMINSKY
Understanding the history of deportation: a review of Désirée Zamorano’s “Dispossessed”
Using Big Tech’s Tools to Critique Big Tech: An Interview with Vauhini Vara about “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”
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
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.
