To celebrate the launch of MQR 61:3, we asked five contributors to share videos introducing and reading from their work featured in the issue. Purchase the MQR Summer 2022 issue here to read more from these and other contributors.
Sumita Chakraborty has selected Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s poem “Autocorrect” as the winner of the 2021 Goldstein Poetry Prize. The poem will appear in MQR‘s Summer 2022 issue. “What I love about “Autocorrect” is that its language games cut straight to the poem’s emotional stakes from the very beginning. Alluvial—a word that describes land created by the …
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MQR is excited to announce our new editors and contributing editors for the 2021-2022 year! Assistant Managing Editor: Aaron J. Stone Aaron J. Stone is a PhD candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. Their primary research interests span queer and trans studies, modernist studies, and narrative theory. Stone’s dissertation project, Desires …
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Having just put together an anniversary issue, this question is downright cruel! It was hard enough to narrow down to that thick issue, let alone a single poem. I am also a libra so I’m deeply indecisive and my excuse for that is a strong belief in fairness. Is it even right to pick just one? Different poems work for me at different times and in different moods or in conversation with other things I’m thinking and reading and feeling. My unending gratitude for the embarrassment of riches in our archives.
FARAH ALI is from Pakistan. Her work has been anthologized in the 2020 Pushcart Prize as well as received special mention in the 2018 Pushcart anthol- ogy. Her stories have appeared in Shenandoah, The Arkansas International, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review online, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Her debut collection of short stories, …
