Ryan McCarty – Michigan Quarterly Review

Ryan McCarty

Ryan McCarty teaches writing at the University of Michigan. His recent work has appeared in Blue Collar Review, Collateral, Door is a Jar, Hamilton Stone Review, Left Voice, One Art, Pinhole, Rattle: Poets Respond, Trailer Park Quarterly, and Writers Resist. He also writes semi-regularly at "Politics of the Kitchen Table with my Family Crafting Nearby (https://ryanmccarty.substack.com/)."

Bringing Home the Broken Things: Nancy Miller Gomez and the Poetry of Inconsolable Objects

Nancy Miller Gomez’s first full-length collection, Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books, 2024), is one gasp after another, filled with the most intimate of small beauties – a mother helping her small son sweep up the spilled ashes of his father, a woman tying the hair she cleans from her brush to trees while imagining the nests […]

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Nancy Miller Gomez’s first full-length collection, Inconsolable Objects (YesYes Books, 2024), is one gasp after another, filled with the most intimate of small beauties – a mother helping her small son sweep up the spilled ashes of his father, a woman tying the hair she cleans from her brush to trees while imagining the nests

A Community Can Look Pretty Dangerous While It’s Redefining What’s Possible

If you only looked at the ways the University of Michigan and the press covered the encampments on the Diag, you would probably think of them as fortresses, rigidly divided from the campus community, both physically and politically. That was the justification for campus police attacking protestors and destroying the site on the morning of

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If you only looked at the ways the University of Michigan and the press covered the encampments on the Diag, you would probably think of them as fortresses, rigidly divided from the campus community, both physically and politically. That was the justification for campus police attacking protestors and destroying the site on the morning of

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