After Anne Boyer As a Black woman, when I am not writing I am not writing a memoir. I am not writing a memoir because memoirs are written by white women. I am not writing a memoir because memoirs are for white women who’ve overcome compelling odds and adolescent trauma. I am not writing a …
Hit play below to hear Johnna St Cyr read her poem “My Windshield Saga (Version 8 Because Every Time I Write A Draft the Damage is Worse Than the Estimate)” and scroll down for the full text. “My Windshield Saga (Version 8 Because Every Time I Write A Draft the Damage is Worse Than the Estimate)” is featured …
Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Abigail McFee introduces Kristene Kaye Brown’s “Why I Stopped Watering the Plants” from our Spring 2021 issue. You can purchase it here. “A body that hungers is a body that hopes,” begins Kristene Kaye Brown’s “Why I Stopped Watering the Plants.” I believe, in this entrance to the poem, that …
My childhood closet was stuffed
with redheaded baby dolls
named for pieces of the body
that start with R—
