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The Florist

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here So many people are inside a rose’s becoming.I speak to those who grow and send it.In the shop, shades of psychotropic green repeat themselvesand I find colorful faces everywhere. A mouthwith the voice of sky asks, Where is your mind right now?I reply, […]

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here So many people are inside a rose’s becoming.I speak to those who grow and send it.In the shop, shades of psychotropic green repeat themselvesand I find colorful faces everywhere. A mouthwith the voice of sky asks, Where is your mind right now?I reply,

On Hunger

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here i make music to live longeri live life to curl tonguestongues with language are a GodGod is a face i can only see with a penthe pen is an echo of the worldthe world is a God we cannot seei do not see

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here i make music to live longeri live life to curl tonguestongues with language are a GodGod is a face i can only see with a penthe pen is an echo of the worldthe world is a God we cannot seei do not see

Insult

Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here For William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) Stroke: insult to the brain, leaking blood; insult to the right eye, now blind; insult to the right hand, now dead; insult of the X-rays, lighting up the skulllike a bulb; insult of doctors telling him what he

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Published in Issue 64.1: Winter 2025 You can purchase our Winter issue here For William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) Stroke: insult to the brain, leaking blood; insult to the right eye, now blind; insult to the right hand, now dead; insult of the X-rays, lighting up the skulllike a bulb; insult of doctors telling him what he

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Selected poems

Michigan Quarterly Review congratulates Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on her remarkable achievement of winning a National Book Award in Poetry for her collection, Something About Living. We are honored to have published Tuffaha in our most recent Fall Translation Issue for her translation of poems by Zakaria Mohammed. Tuffaha was the 2021 Goldstein Poetry Prize winner

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Michigan Quarterly Review congratulates Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on her remarkable achievement of winning a National Book Award in Poetry for her collection, Something About Living. We are honored to have published Tuffaha in our most recent Fall Translation Issue for her translation of poems by Zakaria Mohammed. Tuffaha was the 2021 Goldstein Poetry Prize winner

Excerpts From Skyside

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all

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