Seeking, cultivating, and amplifying a wide range of artistic expressions that interrogate the world and expand the imagination.
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.
From the print issue | 63.3
Read excerpts and full pieces of fiction, essays, and poetry from our Summer 2024 issue.
Meet Our Contributors | Issue 63:4 | Fall 2024
Mother of Stone
So Like a Waking
Archival
Ideal Customers
In Defense of Aunt Léonie
Once I Was Beautiful Now I Am Myself
It’s Important I Remember That the Enemy Is Always Within—
Meet Our Contributors | Issue 63:3 | Summer 2024
For Girls Who Talk Too Much at Lunch
The Diaspora Café
13 Ways of Nepantla
New at MQR Online
Recent web exclusives from the Michigan Quarterly Review.
Hope is a Choice: A Review of Ranjit Hoskote’s Trilogy—Jonahwhale (2018), Hunchprose (2021), Icelight (2023)
Translating the Untranslatable: An Interview with Sawako Nakayasu
The Allure Is the Masquerade: An Interview with Karen Rigby
We, Sonnet: Language, Love, and Power in the Poems of Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee
United in Solidarity
We, Sonnet: Language, Love, and Power in the Poems of Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee
Snow
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Selected poems
If You’re Happy but Don’t Know It
FLOWING FROM AN ABSENT SOURCE: A Conversation with Dimitris Lyacos
african writing online folio
An online-exclusive folio extending the conversation begun by our Spring 2024 special issue on African Writing.
Notes on Movement
from The Book of Kings
Too Late to Die Young
In the Northern Hemisphere
In Plain Sight
conversation about home
jidu (n.): origin, sudanese*
everything, everywhere all at once
homegoing
7384 Tales of Hair for My Cousin without Hair
America grows thicker with us
Vectors of Flight
ode to the body
poem in parts
wild persimmons
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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.
