Announcing the release of MQR 60:2, Our Emerging Voices Issue
Cover art by Eduardo Paolozzi, courtesy of UMMA and Diane Kirkpatrick
Table of Contents
Foreword
Khaled Mattawa: Celebrating Our Emerging Writers
Fiction
- Anitha Ahmed: Couplets by Ghalib
- Samantha Barron: Everybody Wins
- Anu Kandikuppa: Everything is Going to Come
- Annell López: The End of the World as We Know It
Nonfiction
- Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom: Elegy for Fox Island
- Risë Kevalshar Collins: Shabda
- Mette Harrison: The Year I Was a Boy
- Justin Hunt: Cold War Prairie
- Eliza Grace Martin: Stillborn
- Michael McAllister: Off-Grid
Poetry
- Yasmeen Alkishawi: Billie Eilish Breaks the Bold in her Baggy Clothes: What They Don’t Tell You About Covering Up; On Google Maps, Palestine is Nowhere to be Found
- Darius Atefat-Peckham: This Happens
- Kristene Kaye Brown: Why I Stopped Watering the Plants
- Lyn Li Che: Trying to Move On
- Christian J. Collier: In the Spectral Hour
- Johnna St Cyr: My Windshield Saga (Version 8 Because Every Time I Write a Draft the Damage is Worse Than the Estimate)
- James Dunlap: Since My Daddy Died, I’ve Embraced the Notion of Ghosts; Folk Ways
- Stephanie Glazier: Would That I Were
- Spencer Hupp: Twilight Devotional, Southwest Little Rock
- David Hutcheson: Crow
- Amanda Larson: 22, Without Child
- Yuxi Lin: Gametes
- Thomas Renjilian: To Draw a Straight Line
- Katie Schmid: Apartment Hunting
- Sreshtha Sen: Summer is Upon Us
- Samyak Shertok: The Tea-Maker
- Erin Slaughter: At the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River
- Larisa Svirsky: Little Match Girl
- Dujie Tahat: Per Reports from the Southern Border
- Janelle Tan: Wherever We are From, Wherever We are Going
- Innas Tsuroiya: Ghazal: Like Flowers
- Yun Wei: Into the Moraine
You can purchase the Spring 2021 issue here.
