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.

Read excerpts and full pieces of fiction, essays, and poetry from our Winter 2025 issue.
New at MQR Online
Recent web exclusives from the Michigan Quarterly Review.
Flying Toward Destiny
A Conversation Between Michael O’Ryan and Karen Solie
Okimono, Elegy: Little Ivory Fisherman on Stand of Cherry Wood
“Every being is harnessed to another and another and soon”: Harmonizing the Whole in Alessandra Lynch’s Wish Ave
You Have to Follow Your Own Music: Malia Maxwell in Conversation with Aria Aber
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
FALL 2024 Translation special issue
Work from our Fall 2024 Translation Issue.
Excerpts From Skyside
The Dream
Stations in Translation: Power, Eros, and Betrayal (After Gaza)
The Easy Part
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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.
