Heather McHugh – Michigan Quarterly Review

Heather McHugh

Heather McHugh spent her working life in college classrooms with some gifted writers. At seventy she is having the time of her life exploring bays and islands with a kindly and gifted sailor. Her first new poetry collection in ten years will be published by Copper Canyon in 2019, as will a chapbook from Sarabande.

“Emit and Edit”: An Introduction to Our Special Issue on Caregiving

“Emit and Edit,” by Heather McHugh, appeared as the Introduction to MQR 57:4, a special issue dedicated to caregiving. McHugh served as the issue’s guest editor. My heart and hand are oftener at odds than I’d expect. Honored to be asked to serve as guest editor for this caregiving issue of MQR, I soon discovered that the […]

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“Emit and Edit,” by Heather McHugh, appeared as the Introduction to MQR 57:4, a special issue dedicated to caregiving. McHugh served as the issue’s guest editor. My heart and hand are oftener at odds than I’d expect. Honored to be asked to serve as guest editor for this caregiving issue of MQR, I soon discovered that the

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“Emit and Edit”: An Introduction to Our Special Issue on Caregiving

Among the writers we’ve assembled here you’ll find redemptive rhetorics of weather, decipherable stars, children who don’t speak for years, parents who can speak no longer, people calling people animals, signs of disappearance, a word that’s given, then is folded like a map to secret places, some “small speakings,” and several foreign languages.

“Emit and Edit”: An Introduction to Our Special Issue on Caregiving Read More »

Among the writers we’ve assembled here you’ll find redemptive rhetorics of weather, decipherable stars, children who don’t speak for years, parents who can speak no longer, people calling people animals, signs of disappearance, a word that’s given, then is folded like a map to secret places, some “small speakings,” and several foreign languages.

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