Seeking, cultivating, and amplifying a wide range of artistic expressions that interrogate the world and expand the imagination.
Current Issue | 63.3: Summer 2024
Cool off with our Summer 2024 issue, featuring the Goldstein Poetry Prize winner Fernando Trujillo and Ward Fiction Prize winner Vince Omni, as well as new poetry by Chaun Ballard, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Leila Chatti, Melissa Kwasny, Joyce Carol Oates, and more; fiction by Natalie Bakopoulos, Michelle Sacks, and Charlie Sorrenson; and nonfiction by Anne Glaser, Peter E. Murphy, Evelyn Sanchez, and Jodie Noel Vinson.
From the print issue | 63.3
Read excerpts and full pieces of fiction, essays, and poetry from our Summer 2024 issue.
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.
Love and Other Monsters: An Interview with Puloma Ghosh
On Kanafani
Messages from the Books We Choose
I AM THE SPEAKER OF THE POEM: An Interview with Adele Elise Williams
The Capacity of Male Friendship in Hisham Matar’s My Friends
occupy, Attack, and expand
Liberation Pedagogy at the People’s University for Gaza
On Encampment Libraries
The Universe, All at Once: An Interview with Salim Barakat
An Agenda of Smoke in Willie Lin’s Conversations Among Stones
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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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.