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Fall 2021: Why We Write

A Different Distance

My heart sinks as night falls, minutes later daily. Soon, March, spring again, but “curfew,” “confinement,” still menace. “All this for a few old farts who’d die soon anyway . . .” comments in Le Monde. I remember the AIDS epidemic, shunned gay sons. I’d rather be shunned for flamboyant life than “for my own […]

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My heart sinks as night falls, minutes later daily. Soon, March, spring again, but “curfew,” “confinement,” still menace. “All this for a few old farts who’d die soon anyway . . .” comments in Le Monde. I remember the AIDS epidemic, shunned gay sons. I’d rather be shunned for flamboyant life than “for my own

As a Black Woman, Not Writing*

After Anne Boyer As a Black woman, when I am not writing I am not writing a memoir. I am not writing a memoir because memoirs are written by white women. I am not writing a memoir because memoirs are for white women who’ve overcome compelling odds and adolescent trauma. I am not writing a

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After Anne Boyer As a Black woman, when I am not writing I am not writing a memoir. I am not writing a memoir because memoirs are written by white women. I am not writing a memoir because memoirs are for white women who’ve overcome compelling odds and adolescent trauma. I am not writing a

The Commander’s Teeth

Why I Chose It: MQR Reader Urvi Khumbat introduces Naomi Shuyama-Gómez’s “The Commander’s Teeth,” which appears in our Fall 2021 Issue. You can purchase it here. In “The Commander’s Teeth,” the protagonist—a dentistry student named Emilia—is confronted with the possibility of vengeance. As the title suggests, Emilia finds herself in close proximity with the teeth

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Why I Chose It: MQR Reader Urvi Khumbat introduces Naomi Shuyama-Gómez’s “The Commander’s Teeth,” which appears in our Fall 2021 Issue. You can purchase it here. In “The Commander’s Teeth,” the protagonist—a dentistry student named Emilia—is confronted with the possibility of vengeance. As the title suggests, Emilia finds herself in close proximity with the teeth

A Q&A with Fall 2021 Cover Artist Krista Franklin

Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist, the author of Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), the artist book Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012). She is a Helen and Tim Meier Foundation for the Arts Achievement Awardee, and a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and

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Krista Franklin is a writer and visual artist, the author of Too Much Midnight (Haymarket Books, 2020), the artist book Under the Knife (Candor Arts, 2018), and the chapbook Study of Love & Black Body (Willow Books, 2012). She is a Helen and Tim Meier Foundation for the Arts Achievement Awardee, and a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and

On Writing, Teaching and Believing in Your Story: An Interview with Jeff Kass

MQR’s Online Series, “Celebrating Writers in Our Community,” is inspired by our upcoming special-themed issue, “Why We Write.” The series of interviews is a celebration of the diversity of Southeast Michigan writers, their talents, their motivations for writing, and their significance to our community.  Jeff Kass teaches tenth-grade English and Creative Writing at Pioneer High

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MQR’s Online Series, “Celebrating Writers in Our Community,” is inspired by our upcoming special-themed issue, “Why We Write.” The series of interviews is a celebration of the diversity of Southeast Michigan writers, their talents, their motivations for writing, and their significance to our community.  Jeff Kass teaches tenth-grade English and Creative Writing at Pioneer High

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