This is the season of seeking friends’ faces, retrieving memories, and exchanging kind words, in places drenched in light and joy. It’s the season to celebrate people in train stations enacting scenes of meeting and departure, and to acknowledge our feelings of estrangement at home and away. It’s the season to celebrate the glow of …
thinking of poetry, bang your tambourine! denounce imitative ones, say it’s vicious, kids! discover what an imitator is in the midst of the dark affair. sigh with relief and end an inferior thing. don’t mind if they, in lyric or epic poetry, write so well about what music should do to you. work the rational, …
Chicano images are lovely; a bloody boxer heeds the words of his trainer or father, feathered serpents sleeping in mud while drunks in donut shops remember Chihuahua. Each new creation adds strokes to a pre-existing mural, but each dab hardly leaves space for that goofy Anglo sense of self captured in wooden writing cabins back …
“Black Box” is from MQR’s Fall 2021 Issue. You can purchase the issue here. Black Boxnoun Aviation: a small machine that records information about an aircraft during flight, used to discover the cause of an accident. (1) Military science: also known as the “nuclear football,” “the button,” “the emergency satchel,” a black leather briefcase containing …
To celebrate the launch of our special issue, “Why We Write,” we asked six contributors to share videos introducing and reading from their work featured in the issue. Purchase the Fall 2021 issue here to read more from these and other authors.
