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Summer 2023

In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry This poem responds to Iman Mersal’s “Traces of Enayat” (Al Kotob Khan, 2019), which uncovers the life and death of the Egyptian writer Enayat Al-Zayyat (1936-1963), whose only novel was published posthumously. The italicized text on the left has been translated—at […]

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize in Poetry This poem responds to Iman Mersal’s “Traces of Enayat” (Al Kotob Khan, 2019), which uncovers the life and death of the Egyptian writer Enayat Al-Zayyat (1936-1963), whose only novel was published posthumously. The italicized text on the left has been translated—at

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 I’m rooted in movement I’m rooted in movement I’m rooted in movement I’m rooted in movement this phenomenon is improbable it’s improbable I’m rooted in resonance I’m rooted in transparency branches glide over me I’m rooted in resonance I scrutinize all that’s being whispered on my neck I’m rooted

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 I’m rooted in movement I’m rooted in movement I’m rooted in movement I’m rooted in movement this phenomenon is improbable it’s improbable I’m rooted in resonance I’m rooted in transparency branches glide over me I’m rooted in resonance I scrutinize all that’s being whispered on my neck I’m rooted

Harm Reduction

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of MQR’s 2024 Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader and former MQR Social Media Coordinator Lauren Champlin on why she recommended “Harm Reduction” by Thea Chacamaty for the Summer 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. “Harm Reduction” is a story that captivated me

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 Winner of MQR’s 2024 Lawrence Foundation Prize in Fiction Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader and former MQR Social Media Coordinator Lauren Champlin on why she recommended “Harm Reduction” by Thea Chacamaty for the Summer 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. “Harm Reduction” is a story that captivated me

Guzzle

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 In poetry seminars, we scooped goat cheese & zaytoon with naan bread. Or was it pita? Lahmacun or Pantoum? We pantalooned with non guzzles: without takhalus, qafiyah, without the leftover  call of the radif. Was erasure solely of the tennis net when we saloned without radif? When it became

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 In poetry seminars, we scooped goat cheese & zaytoon with naan bread. Or was it pita? Lahmacun or Pantoum? We pantalooned with non guzzles: without takhalus, qafiyah, without the leftover  call of the radif. Was erasure solely of the tennis net when we saloned without radif? When it became

Daily Papers

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 The scrapbook I found after my father died was wedged into a row of books in the living room, where books were shelved two deep in floor-to-ceiling bookcases. Some of the shelves had books crammed in horizontally too, and it was in one of those stacks that I found

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Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 The scrapbook I found after my father died was wedged into a row of books in the living room, where books were shelved two deep in floor-to-ceiling bookcases. Some of the shelves had books crammed in horizontally too, and it was in one of those stacks that I found

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