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a burst of wind and light (or, things I’d like to imagine)

Sometimes our biggest barriers are things we imagine or maybe things we fail to imagine. Shortly after Trump was elected president of the United States of America and instituted a so-called “Muslim ban,” an Arab American nonprofit in Chicago held a press conference outside of O’Hare International Airport. The leadership barked a bunch of empty […]

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Sometimes our biggest barriers are things we imagine or maybe things we fail to imagine. Shortly after Trump was elected president of the United States of America and instituted a so-called “Muslim ban,” an Arab American nonprofit in Chicago held a press conference outside of O’Hare International Airport. The leadership barked a bunch of empty

Summer of 1988

As long as he stayed inside the house, he felt depressed. When he went out onto the street, anxiety would have a turn. It was an interminable anxiety that grew so strong at times he thought his heart would pound its way up and out his throat. Fariborz was only a pretext. He knew quite

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As long as he stayed inside the house, he felt depressed. When he went out onto the street, anxiety would have a turn. It was an interminable anxiety that grew so strong at times he thought his heart would pound its way up and out his throat. Fariborz was only a pretext. He knew quite

Death, Peppermint Flavoured

Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader A. Shaikh introduces Ashur Etwebi’s poem “Death, Peppermint Flavoured,” translated by Etwebi and James Byrne for our Spring 2022 issue, “Decades of Fire.” You can purchase the issue here. There is something about Ashur Etwebi’s work which transcends even the common domain of English.  Such is the beauty of a

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader A. Shaikh introduces Ashur Etwebi’s poem “Death, Peppermint Flavoured,” translated by Etwebi and James Byrne for our Spring 2022 issue, “Decades of Fire.” You can purchase the issue here. There is something about Ashur Etwebi’s work which transcends even the common domain of English.  Such is the beauty of a

A Season of Stories

This is the season of seeking friends’ faces, retrieving memories, and exchanging kind words, in places drenched in light and joy. It’s the season to celebrate people in train stations enacting scenes of meeting and departure, and to acknowledge our feelings of estrangement at home and away. It’s the season to celebrate the glow of

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This is the season of seeking friends’ faces, retrieving memories, and exchanging kind words, in places drenched in light and joy. It’s the season to celebrate people in train stations enacting scenes of meeting and departure, and to acknowledge our feelings of estrangement at home and away. It’s the season to celebrate the glow of

On Contemplating a Second Child

“On Contemplating a Second Child,” by Jennifer Case, appears in the Winter 2019 Issue of MQR. The winter my husband and I debate whether or not to have a second child, I am a new faculty member at a state university. The job is a good one— the promising start of a long and hopefully rewarding career—and

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“On Contemplating a Second Child,” by Jennifer Case, appears in the Winter 2019 Issue of MQR. The winter my husband and I debate whether or not to have a second child, I am a new faculty member at a state university. The job is a good one— the promising start of a long and hopefully rewarding career—and

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