Anna Maria Hong – Michigan Quarterly Review

Anna Maria Hong

Anna Maria Hong is the author of Age of Glass, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Competition; the novella H & G; and Fablesque, winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize. Her poems and essays are recently published and forthcoming in Colorado Review, Fairy Tale Review, The American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Poem-a-Day, and Sonnets from the American: Essays and Poems.

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We, Sonnet: Language, Love, and Power in the Poems of Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee

Like many contemporary poets, Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee evoke the sonnet in ways that both adhere to and stretch its formal bounds and exploit expectations of what the sonnet itself represents, employing the sonnet and its associations to amplify their investigations of language, love, and power. In her series “Ka ‘Ōlelo,” McDougall, a […]

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Like many contemporary poets, Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee evoke the sonnet in ways that both adhere to and stretch its formal bounds and exploit expectations of what the sonnet itself represents, employing the sonnet and its associations to amplify their investigations of language, love, and power. In her series “Ka ‘Ōlelo,” McDougall, a

Two book covers on blue background

We, Sonnet: Language, Love, and Power in the Poems of Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee

Like many contemporary poets, Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee evoke the sonnet in ways that both adhere to and stretch its formal bounds and exploit expectations of what the sonnet itself represents, employing the sonnet and its associations to amplify their investigations of language, love, and power. In her series “Ka ‘Ōlelo,” McDougall, a

We, Sonnet: Language, Love, and Power in the Poems of Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee Read More »

Like many contemporary poets, Brandy Nālani McDougall and Margaret Rhee evoke the sonnet in ways that both adhere to and stretch its formal bounds and exploit expectations of what the sonnet itself represents, employing the sonnet and its associations to amplify their investigations of language, love, and power. In her series “Ka ‘Ōlelo,” McDougall, a

“Of Work”: On Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again”

For the Fall 2022 special issue of MQR, “Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink,” we reached out to a range of esteemed authors to write short essays that respond to Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again I believe it was in a high school English class that I first encountered Langston Hughes, reading the

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For the Fall 2022 special issue of MQR, “Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink,” we reached out to a range of esteemed authors to write short essays that respond to Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again I believe it was in a high school English class that I first encountered Langston Hughes, reading the

Vladivostok & Conscience

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All books are made of 20th-century values. What is the coin of the region? By the bridge, a scent of honey. Show me your registration. The man in the booth lifts his arm. The bridge is wood and cracks. Another building of red-brown brick and unknown function. The lake with its mirrored glaze and rippling

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