MQR Issue 62:2, Spring 2023
“SomaFlights”
Guest Edited by Vidhu Aggarwal
& Petra Kuppers
Table of Contents
Foreword
Poetry
- Hari Alluri | SLOW TIME SIMMER; THIS ELEMENTAL BLADE—
- Derek Annis | PITCH
- Nellie Le Beau | REQUIEM
- Emily Brandt | FLORIDA 18 / WATER 1 / PEEPHOLE OF THE DOOR 59; SINGER 32 / MURDER 62 / COUSIN 33
- Michael Chang | 广岛之恋 HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
- CAConrad | 3 POEMS
- Tonya M. Foster | PROLOGUE’S EDEN: DRAFT 1; HOOD HAUNTINGS: (A POEM IN/ON PROGRESS): DRAFT 2; LIBIDO: DRAFT 1
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs | RHEA; IABOURA; ANUWANAYUMAN (ANUWANA); TADAII; AWARAKUYA
- Ava Hofmann | GRID LICK 1
- Megan Kaminski | WETLANDS; AMULET
- Ginger Ko | PERPETUAL STEW; BAD BODY
- Cynthia Ling Lee | MOSS TIME, CRIP TIME; FATIGUE
- Angela Peñaredondo | TRANSMITTER SIGNALS FROM A YOUNG BROWN FEMINIST; KEEPER OF BLADES
- Ricky Ray | WALK WITH ADDIE: THE DRSKA FOREST IN DANBURY
- heidi andrea restrepo rhodes | IN THE NEUROQUEER UNIVERSE, I KIN ACROSS THE QUANTUM FIELD
- Lorraine Schein | ZODIAC STATION
- Dom Witten | SHOPPING LIST FOR THE EXORCISTS; WOKENESS 101: QUIZ 1
- Stella Wong | [THE CHARCOAL IN THE]; [OF APPLAUSE]
- Beatriz Yanes Martinez | CYBORG
Prose
- Nic Anstett | SONGS IN THE DARK | fiction
- Will Alexander & Byron Baker | PRIOR TO LIVING SOLAR MASS | visual art & prose hybrid
- Teresa Carmody | MOVING THE INCONSEQUENTIAL LOOP: SOMATICS, FEMINISMS | essay
- Ahana Ganguly | MY EGG | essay
- L.J. | FATHER PANIC | essay
- Tim Jones-Yelvington | EXCERPTS FROM THE STRAWBERRY FANTA BOOK | prose
- Megan Milks | NIGHT MILK | essay
- Olivia Muenz | PATIENT | fiction
- Leanne Ogasawara | THE ORCHID | fiction
- Dominica Phetteplace | HOW AND WHY THE BUBBLE BURST | fiction
Visual Art
- Will Alexander & Byron Baker | PRIOR TO LIVING SOLAR MASS | visual art & prose hybrid
- Yvonne Meier | FORZA; ADELANTE; VAMPS; SCATTER
- Bishakh Som | EVERY WHORL OF A PERIWINKLE
Online Folio
This special issue includes an exclusive online folio as a supplement to the print issue.
- MQR’s 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees
- IN THE NEUROQUEER UNIVERSE, I KIN ACROSS THE QUANTUM FIELD
- Transmitter Signals From A Young Brown Feminist” and “Keeper of Blades”
- “Bad Body” and “Perpetual Stew”
- How and Why The Bubble Burst
- “Wetlands” and “Amulet”
- “Rhea” and “Iaboura”
- SLOW TIME SIMMER; THIS ELEMENTAL BLADE—
- THE ORCHID
- Patient
- Conjoined Orbits: An Invitation
- NIGHT MILK
- MOVING THE INCONSEQUENTIAL LOOP: SOMATICS, FEMINISMS
- Weight
- a story that doesn’t have to do with me
- “All night I traveled,” “What did I do today”
- Six Drawings for D.L.W.
- grid lick 3-4
- The Greater Melodic Field As Quest For Purification
- 4 Vessels
