Seeking, cultivating, and amplifying a wide range of artistic expressions that interrogate the world and expand the imagination.
Current Issue | 65.2: SPRING 2026
As the World Cup approaches, our Spring 2026 issue includes a special folio on soccer and also features poetry by Mary Jo Bang, Chard deNiord, Chris Abani, fiction by Charles Baxter, Sarah Gerkensmeyer, and Abraham Molinares, nonfiction by Catherine Niu, Maya Salameh, Celeste Lipkes, and many more.
Spring 2026 Online folio
Print and online work from our current issue with a special folio on soccer.
New at MQR Online
Recent web exclusives from the Michigan Quarterly Review.
Home Games
Sabalero
Inherited Geographies
A Generous Disruption: On Megan Milks’s Mega Milk
Be As Weird As You Want: An Interview with Sarah Wang
From the Archives: Three Ounces or Less by Hannah Thurman
Katherine Gaffney Wins The 2026 Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry for “Abecedarian for my Mother’s Grief”
Ariel Katz Wins The 2026 Jesmyn Ward Prize in Fiction for “Family Collection”
An Interview With Craig Santos Perez
Spring 2026 Preview: “Haggling the Shami Way” by Maya Salameh
WINTER 2026
I Can Imagine It for Us
Sunday at Mt. Carmel
Fear It
Repetitions
Why We Chose It: Sara Lippmann’s “Slaughterhouse Rules”
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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.
