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Looking Is a Sacred Act: A Conversation with Sati Mookherjee

Sati Mookherjee’s debut poetry collection Eye follows the exile of the poet’s grandfather from India to pre-World War II Europe. Directly inspired by her grandfather’s memoirs, Mookherjee tells not only the dramatic story of his journey and his longing for home, but also a larger story about the orbits we follow throughout our lives. Erica […]

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Sati Mookherjee’s debut poetry collection Eye follows the exile of the poet’s grandfather from India to pre-World War II Europe. Directly inspired by her grandfather’s memoirs, Mookherjee tells not only the dramatic story of his journey and his longing for home, but also a larger story about the orbits we follow throughout our lives. Erica

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Survival as a Creative Act: An Interview with Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth is the author of A Wake with Nine Shades (2019) and Her Read, A Graphic Poem (2021), both published by Texas Review Press. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Cincinnati Review, and here at Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR Volume 53, Issue 3 and MQR Mixtape Issue 4). An

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Jennifer Sperry Steinorth is the author of A Wake with Nine Shades (2019) and Her Read, A Graphic Poem (2021), both published by Texas Review Press. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Cincinnati Review, and here at Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR Volume 53, Issue 3 and MQR Mixtape Issue 4). An

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An Interview with Raquel Gutiérrez

Raquel Gutiérrez is an arts critic/writer, poet, and educator living in Tucson, Arizona. Gutiérrez is a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism, as well as a 2017 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Her/Their writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Art in America, NPR Music, Places Journal,

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Raquel Gutiérrez is an arts critic/writer, poet, and educator living in Tucson, Arizona. Gutiérrez is a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism, as well as a 2017 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Her/Their writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Art in America, NPR Music, Places Journal,

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“In Times of Social Upheaval, The Poet and the Reader Begin to Speak the Same Language”: An Interview with Maria Malinovskaya (2020-2022)

Thirty years ago, I began a research project called “Contemporary Russian Poetry and Its Relationship to Historical Change,” thanks to a fellowship from the Watson Foundation. During the tumult of post-Soviet economic “shock therapy,” I lived in Russia, interviewing and translating leading contemporary Russian poets, trying to understand how poets were understanding their changing role

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Thirty years ago, I began a research project called “Contemporary Russian Poetry and Its Relationship to Historical Change,” thanks to a fellowship from the Watson Foundation. During the tumult of post-Soviet economic “shock therapy,” I lived in Russia, interviewing and translating leading contemporary Russian poets, trying to understand how poets were understanding their changing role

Joe Sacksteder at AWP holding a copy of MQR

An Interview with Joe Sacksteder 

Joe Sacksteder is the author of the novel Driftless Quintet and the short story collection Make/Shift, and recently published the essay “Against Quirky Writing” in the Winter 2022 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review. In it, he makes a bold argument on the current state of today’s experimental literary landscape. While affirming his dedications to

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Joe Sacksteder is the author of the novel Driftless Quintet and the short story collection Make/Shift, and recently published the essay “Against Quirky Writing” in the Winter 2022 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review. In it, he makes a bold argument on the current state of today’s experimental literary landscape. While affirming his dedications to

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