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Current Issue | 64.1: Winter
2025

We’re kicking off the new year with our Winter 2025 issue, featuring poetry by Diya Abbas, Cal Bedient, Martín Espada, and Yanna Robison; fiction by Hema Padhu, Sanjana Thakur, and Kevin Wilson; and nonfiction by Amy Benson, Leyla Loued-Khenissi, and Kemp Powers, and more.

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From the print issue | 63.3

Read excerpts and full pieces of fiction, essays, and poetry from our Summer 2024 issue.

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An online-exclusive folio extending the conversation begun by our Spring 2024 special issue on African Writing.

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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.

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