Volume 62: 2023 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Volume 62: 2023

MQR’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees

Michelle Herman’s “Daily Papers” (Summer ‘23) | Nonfiction Susan Perabo’s “The Best Loved Dog” (Winter ’23) | Fiction Thea Chacamaty’s “Harm Reduction” (Summer ’23) | Fiction Angela Peñaredondo’s “Keeper of Blades” (Spring ’23) | Poetry Martín Espada’s “My Father’s Practice Book” (Summer ‘23) | Poetry Rachel Nelson’s “Diseases of American Slavery” [The earth will try…] […]

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Michelle Herman’s “Daily Papers” (Summer ‘23) | Nonfiction Susan Perabo’s “The Best Loved Dog” (Winter ’23) | Fiction Thea Chacamaty’s “Harm Reduction” (Summer ’23) | Fiction Angela Peñaredondo’s “Keeper of Blades” (Spring ’23) | Poetry Martín Espada’s “My Father’s Practice Book” (Summer ‘23) | Poetry Rachel Nelson’s “Diseases of American Slavery” [The earth will try…]

IN A RAIN OF FLOWERS

Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 We are contained in rooms leaking with absence. New recruits to the cult of death,  we dress differently, sheathed in black armor. The house stirs.We pace the interior.  * The restless sleep of the house keeps us up at night shiftingits wood shingles,  never comfortable, it moves to let street

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Published in Issue 63.1: Winter 2024 We are contained in rooms leaking with absence. New recruits to the cult of death,  we dress differently, sheathed in black armor. The house stirs.We pace the interior.  * The restless sleep of the house keeps us up at night shiftingits wood shingles,  never comfortable, it moves to let street

MOTHER AND CHILD and other poems

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 MOTHER AND CHILD MAP OF THE US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM’S THIRD FLOOR Alexa Luborsky is a writer of Western Armenian and Eastern European Jewish descent. Her poems have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, and West Branch, among others. She is an MFA candidate in

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 MOTHER AND CHILD MAP OF THE US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM’S THIRD FLOOR Alexa Luborsky is a writer of Western Armenian and Eastern European Jewish descent. Her poems have appeared in journals such as AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, and West Branch, among others. She is an MFA candidate in

FOREWORD: TO TRANS IS TO MAKE POSSIBLE

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is guest editor of our Fall 2023 issue Transversions: Archives, Testimony, and Reimagination. I write to you amid what the World Meteorological Organization has named the hottest month ever on record, on the precipice of what is likely to be another hottest month, no end or solution

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is guest editor of our Fall 2023 issue Transversions: Archives, Testimony, and Reimagination. I write to you amid what the World Meteorological Organization has named the hottest month ever on record, on the precipice of what is likely to be another hottest month, no end or solution

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Jason Storms is a poet, musician, and critic from Interlochen living in Metro Detroit. His work has previously appeared in The Rumpus, Fugue, The Dunes Review, The Leon Literary Review, The Museum of Americana and is forthcoming in The Great Lakes Review. He holds an MFA from the Warren

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Jason Storms is a poet, musician, and critic from Interlochen living in Metro Detroit. His work has previously appeared in The Rumpus, Fugue, The Dunes Review, The Leon Literary Review, The Museum of Americana and is forthcoming in The Great Lakes Review. He holds an MFA from the Warren

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