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WHAT WOULD I DO FOR YOU, WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR ME?

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 Why Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader A. Shaikh on why they recommended Emma Binder’s “What Would I Do For You, What Would Yo Do For Me?” for MQR‘s Winter 2024 issue. You can purchase the issue here. As a reader, you dream of encountering fiction as heart-driven and nuanced […]

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 Why Why We Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader A. Shaikh on why they recommended Emma Binder’s “What Would I Do For You, What Would Yo Do For Me?” for MQR‘s Winter 2024 issue. You can purchase the issue here. As a reader, you dream of encountering fiction as heart-driven and nuanced

MQR’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees

Michelle Herman’s “Daily Papers” (Summer ‘23) | Nonfiction Susan Perabo’s “The Best Loved Dog” (Winter ’23) | Fiction Thea Chacamaty’s “Harm Reduction” (Summer ’23) | Fiction Angela Peñaredondo’s “Keeper of Blades” (Spring ’23) | Poetry Martín Espada’s “My Father’s Practice Book” (Summer ‘23) | Poetry Rachel Nelson’s “Diseases of American Slavery” [The earth will try…]

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Michelle Herman’s “Daily Papers” (Summer ‘23) | Nonfiction Susan Perabo’s “The Best Loved Dog” (Winter ’23) | Fiction Thea Chacamaty’s “Harm Reduction” (Summer ’23) | Fiction Angela Peñaredondo’s “Keeper of Blades” (Spring ’23) | Poetry Martín Espada’s “My Father’s Practice Book” (Summer ‘23) | Poetry Rachel Nelson’s “Diseases of American Slavery” [The earth will try…]

GRANDMOTHER

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 “When demons take your soul,” my grandmother told me, “they don’t take all of it away.” That was how my evenings began, sitting before my declining grandmother, listening to stories of her time as a witch. She sat on the bed, legs sprawled, pillows under her ankles and knees.

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 “When demons take your soul,” my grandmother told me, “they don’t take all of it away.” That was how my evenings began, sitting before my declining grandmother, listening to stories of her time as a witch. She sat on the bed, legs sprawled, pillows under her ankles and knees.

THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF ERIC WILLIAMS

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 November 2, 1948 All Soul’s Day, after dark. Two men were trapped in Lapeyrouse Cemetery. “Can we do this?” “Let’s try.” The tall man faced the rough, crumbling wall. He spread his legs and cupped his hands in front of his crotch and formed a kind of stirrup. “You

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 November 2, 1948 All Soul’s Day, after dark. Two men were trapped in Lapeyrouse Cemetery. “Can we do this?” “Let’s try.” The tall man faced the rough, crumbling wall. He spread his legs and cupped his hands in front of his crotch and formed a kind of stirrup. “You

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The Chlorophyll Library

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Sarah Anderson on why she recommended “The Chlorophyll Library” by Callum Angus for the Fall 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. When each of us is flooded with content every hour of every day, one of the greatest challenges of writing today is

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Sarah Anderson on why she recommended “The Chlorophyll Library” by Callum Angus for the Fall 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. When each of us is flooded with content every hour of every day, one of the greatest challenges of writing today is

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