Spring 2023: SomaFlights – Michigan Quarterly Review

Spring 2023: SomaFlights

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 THE NEUROQUEER UNIVERSE, I KIN ACROSS THE QUANTUM FIELD 

HEIDI ANDREA RESTREPO RHODES What if neither skin nor self were the starting point for the complex interrelational matrix of being and worlding? Being and worlding depend on the activity of reaching-toward. Reaching-toward foregrounds the relationality inherent in experience, a kind of feeling-with the world. This tending-toward is a sensing-with that does not occur strictly

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HEIDI ANDREA RESTREPO RHODES What if neither skin nor self were the starting point for the complex interrelational matrix of being and worlding? Being and worlding depend on the activity of reaching-toward. Reaching-toward foregrounds the relationality inherent in experience, a kind of feeling-with the world. This tending-toward is a sensing-with that does not occur strictly

Transmitter Signals From A Young Brown Feminist” and “Keeper of Blades”

TRANSMITTER SIGNALS FROM A YOUNG BROWN FEMINIST dear queer choreography moro folkloric dance moves     to madonna’s like a virgin &     gay immigrant child raised in the 90’s not to be mistaken for digital natives who obsess over throwbacks prince of bel air & metallic balloon pants                                                 turned jungle asia monstera print when

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TRANSMITTER SIGNALS FROM A YOUNG BROWN FEMINIST dear queer choreography moro folkloric dance moves     to madonna’s like a virgin &     gay immigrant child raised in the 90’s not to be mistaken for digital natives who obsess over throwbacks prince of bel air & metallic balloon pants                                                 turned jungle asia monstera print when

“Bad Body” and “Perpetual Stew”

Bad Body The heavy gallop of a strong animal however fluid is always muscled slow. I admire them those whose insides and outsides correspond seemingly seamlessly the costumes of aura. I feel captured by the need for your attention and you yourself are free. You move around decide for yourself walk through the trap lines

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Bad Body The heavy gallop of a strong animal however fluid is always muscled slow. I admire them those whose insides and outsides correspond seemingly seamlessly the costumes of aura. I feel captured by the need for your attention and you yourself are free. You move around decide for yourself walk through the trap lines

How and Why The Bubble Burst

A few months before the Bubble burst, Cora’s sister was stopped at the border and denied entry into Mexico. “Why would they detain Luz?” Her father called her as soon as they got back to Bakersfield. He sounded genuinely befuddled. “Dad . . .” Cora struggled to put it in words that her father might

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A few months before the Bubble burst, Cora’s sister was stopped at the border and denied entry into Mexico. “Why would they detain Luz?” Her father called her as soon as they got back to Bakersfield. He sounded genuinely befuddled. “Dad . . .” Cora struggled to put it in words that her father might

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