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Vectors of Flight

Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio You wanna fly (Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon) The earth provides, makes us pillows-as-clouds that we can touch and wrap ourselves in, and instead of delighting in the miracle of a Cumulus we could reach, greed menaced our mother and enlisted youth, like pictured here, into turning the mundane—grasp […]

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Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio You wanna fly (Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon) The earth provides, makes us pillows-as-clouds that we can touch and wrap ourselves in, and instead of delighting in the miracle of a Cumulus we could reach, greed menaced our mother and enlisted youth, like pictured here, into turning the mundane—grasp

AT THE HEAD OF THE CLASS

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Julie Lee is the award-winning author of Brother’s Keeper and In the Tunnel. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, as well as a BA in history from Cornell University. When she is not spending time with her family,

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Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 Julie Lee is the award-winning author of Brother’s Keeper and In the Tunnel. She holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, as well as a BA in history from Cornell University. When she is not spending time with her family,

ODE TO LEVONORGESTREL AND OTHER POEMS

ODE TO LEVONORGESTREL Author’s Note: Levonorgestrel is the active ingredient in Plan B One-Step®, the leading brand in over-the-counter emergency contraceptive medication. This poem uses the chemical structural formula for the drug as a skeleton for the lyric exploration of what this highly politicized drug can mean to a person avoiding pregnancy. 116TH CONGRESS, 1ST

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ODE TO LEVONORGESTREL Author’s Note: Levonorgestrel is the active ingredient in Plan B One-Step®, the leading brand in over-the-counter emergency contraceptive medication. This poem uses the chemical structural formula for the drug as a skeleton for the lyric exploration of what this highly politicized drug can mean to a person avoiding pregnancy. 116TH CONGRESS, 1ST

Enacting Masculinity: Wherein the States of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi Tell Me How to Be a Man

In collaboration with Ben Winans Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 S.B. 514 Senate Bill 354 Senate Bill 2536 House Bill 578 Morgan Thomas is a writer from the Gulf Coast. Their debut story collection, MANYWHERE, was published by MCD-FSG and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Lambda Literary’s Transgender Fiction Prize, and

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In collaboration with Ben Winans Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 S.B. 514 Senate Bill 354 Senate Bill 2536 House Bill 578 Morgan Thomas is a writer from the Gulf Coast. Their debut story collection, MANYWHERE, was published by MCD-FSG and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Lambda Literary’s Transgender Fiction Prize, and

FOUNDING DOCUMENTS RESTAGED

Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Chloe Alberta on why she recommended “Founding Documents Restaged” by Craig McDaniel for our Fall 2022 issue. You can purchase the issue here. I admit, I have the attention span of a goldfish, or an excitable child—in a pile of nonfiction, “Founding Documents Restaged” caught my eye. But beyond the

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Why I Chose It: Michigan Quarterly Review reader Chloe Alberta on why she recommended “Founding Documents Restaged” by Craig McDaniel for our Fall 2022 issue. You can purchase the issue here. I admit, I have the attention span of a goldfish, or an excitable child—in a pile of nonfiction, “Founding Documents Restaged” caught my eye. But beyond the

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