Winter 2023 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Winter 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…]

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“Let’s see” is walking toward me at dawn, behind my childhood cat. I don’t even look at my souvenirs anymore. My hair fell into the dirt, sticking up & waving in the wind. Who is it waving to? Your hair falls off of you & onto a heart-shaped plant. It’s fragrant, but I want absence.

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“Let’s see” is walking toward me at dawn, behind my childhood cat. I don’t even look at my souvenirs anymore. My hair fell into the dirt, sticking up & waving in the wind. Who is it waving to? Your hair falls off of you & onto a heart-shaped plant. It’s fragrant, but I want absence.

The Best Loved Dog

He ran into Cheryl in the bar at the airport Hyatt in Pittsburgh. She was having drinks with two other women—probably flight attendants, Paul thought, by the looks of them. They were across the room, at a table, under the TV with the basketball game he was following. He stopped watching the game and let

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He ran into Cheryl in the bar at the airport Hyatt in Pittsburgh. She was having drinks with two other women—probably flight attendants, Paul thought, by the looks of them. They were across the room, at a table, under the TV with the basketball game he was following. He stopped watching the game and let

Alternative Facts

Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader A. Shaikh on why they recommended “Alternative Facts” by Susan Azar Porterfield for our Winter 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. It’s an incredible gift to find a poem aware of its own multitudes, such as “Alternative Facts” by Susan Azar Porterfield. The poem begins by stating its

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader A. Shaikh on why they recommended “Alternative Facts” by Susan Azar Porterfield for our Winter 2023 issue. You can purchase the issue here. It’s an incredible gift to find a poem aware of its own multitudes, such as “Alternative Facts” by Susan Azar Porterfield. The poem begins by stating its

“Dementia” and “Purpose”

Dementia Your visitors are curious about the sound of the windchimes out your window, coming from your neighbor’s yard. They ask about the sounds from downstairs, where dementia has taken over the old woman’s throat. Her sounds have the inflection of real speech and she says the same thing over and over: Da da da

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Dementia Your visitors are curious about the sound of the windchimes out your window, coming from your neighbor’s yard. They ask about the sounds from downstairs, where dementia has taken over the old woman’s throat. Her sounds have the inflection of real speech and she says the same thing over and over: Da da da

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