Winter 2022 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Winter 2022

Exit Plan

It’s that time again. I feel it like a lost wedding band: I’m not Muslim, I don’t wear a veil. Doesn’t matter. That box is big, it contains multitudes. I’d almost forgotten After years of a kind of calm. Years of feeling like who you think you are is who you are, Now that old […]

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It’s that time again. I feel it like a lost wedding band: I’m not Muslim, I don’t wear a veil. Doesn’t matter. That box is big, it contains multitudes. I’d almost forgotten After years of a kind of calm. Years of feeling like who you think you are is who you are, Now that old

Against Quirky Writing

Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review’s Assistant Managing Editor and former Nonfiction Editor, Aaron J. Stone, introduces Joe Sacksteder’s “Against Quirky Writing” from our Winter 2022 issue. You can purchase the issue here. This essay’s reputation preceded it—which is nearly unheard of for an unsolicited submission. While I was Nonfiction Editor, I one day joined a Zoom call

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review’s Assistant Managing Editor and former Nonfiction Editor, Aaron J. Stone, introduces Joe Sacksteder’s “Against Quirky Writing” from our Winter 2022 issue. You can purchase the issue here. This essay’s reputation preceded it—which is nearly unheard of for an unsolicited submission. While I was Nonfiction Editor, I one day joined a Zoom call

The Hispanic Invasion of Texas

Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Caroline Harper New introduces Maria Esquina’s “The Hispanic Invasion of Texas” from our Winter 2022 issue. You can purchase the issue here. When I came across this poem, I was drawn in by Esquinca’s use of fragments to create porosity between past and present, disparate locations, and individual bodies.

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Caroline Harper New introduces Maria Esquina’s “The Hispanic Invasion of Texas” from our Winter 2022 issue. You can purchase the issue here. When I came across this poem, I was drawn in by Esquinca’s use of fragments to create porosity between past and present, disparate locations, and individual bodies.

Just One Day

Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Julie Cadman-Kim introduces Janice Furlong’s “Just One Day” from our Winter 2022 issue. You can purchase it here. I wrote and rewrote this introduction of Janice Furlong’s magnificent debut story, “Just One Day,” about fifteen times. One version was funny, one was solemn, one fairly gross. I wrote about

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Julie Cadman-Kim introduces Janice Furlong’s “Just One Day” from our Winter 2022 issue. You can purchase it here. I wrote and rewrote this introduction of Janice Furlong’s magnificent debut story, “Just One Day,” about fifteen times. One version was funny, one was solemn, one fairly gross. I wrote about

Vladivostok & Conscience

All books are made of 20th-century values. What is the coin of the region? By the bridge, a scent of honey. Show me your registration. The man in the booth lifts his arm. The bridge is wood and cracks. Another building of red-brown brick and unknown function. The lake with its mirrored glaze and rippling

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All books are made of 20th-century values. What is the coin of the region? By the bridge, a scent of honey. Show me your registration. The man in the booth lifts his arm. The bridge is wood and cracks. Another building of red-brown brick and unknown function. The lake with its mirrored glaze and rippling

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