Myronn Hardy – Michigan Quarterly Review

Myronn Hardy

Myronn Hardy is the author of several books of poems, most recently, Radioactive Starlings, published by Princeton University Press. His poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Baffler, the Virginia Quarterly Review, jubilat, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He teaches at Bates College.

A World Cup Match: A Battle in a Moroccan Writer’s House

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 I’m told it is Taha Ben Jelloun’s house as I take off my boots, place them in the designated shoe area in the foyer. The French expatriate hosts are renting his house: a sculptor and an urban planner with their three children, two girls and one boy. But before […]

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 I’m told it is Taha Ben Jelloun’s house as I take off my boots, place them in the designated shoe area in the foyer. The French expatriate hosts are renting his house: a sculptor and an urban planner with their three children, two girls and one boy. But before

empty Chair Bench in a park during Fall

Dispatches: The One Missing

Maine’s governor, Janet Mills, later, due to the virus, designated the state as one of emergency. I immediately thought of where that person would go, if they’d remain on that bench in tumultuous rest, sleep. Where would the most vulnerable of us go? Would they persist in this pandemic, among this virus set to infect silently, to kill?

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Maine’s governor, Janet Mills, later, due to the virus, designated the state as one of emergency. I immediately thought of where that person would go, if they’d remain on that bench in tumultuous rest, sleep. Where would the most vulnerable of us go? Would they persist in this pandemic, among this virus set to infect silently, to kill?

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