Current Issue: Spring 2026 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Current Issue: Spring 2026

Soccer player in green, white, and red uniform kicks a ball mid-stride during a match, with other players blurred in the background. Yellow and white border highlights the Michigan Quarterly Review Volume 65, 2026 cover.

Table of Contents


Poetry

  • Chris Abani | Even Things with No Name; My First Shame
  • Mary Jo BangThe Death; Posing as Mary; Mary’s Little Office
  • Peter Cooley | One Minute Read
  • Chard deNiord | 24; 26
  • Mark Irwin | The Animals; Death; Script

Fiction

  • Charles Baxter | Paper Pills
  • Sarah Gerkensmeyer | Wild Light
  • Abraham Molinares | American Wasteland
  • Joanna Pearson | Bad Person
  • Emma Cairns Watson | Tater 2

Nonfiction

  • Celeste Lipkes | Nocturnist
  • Catherine Niu | Guo
  • Maya Salameh | Haggling the Shami Way

A Special Folio on Soccer

  • Ma’ruf al-Rusafi | They Gathered for Sport (poetry)
  • Benjamin Chappelow | No Free Kicks (nonfiction)
  • Mahmoud Darwish | Maradona (nonfiction)
  • Arturo Davila | Two Truths A(round) One Goalpost; Ode to Solitude; The Love Goal;”For I is Another (poetry)
  • Ivan Pech and Sean Jacobs | “You Have Four Months to Learn Spanish” (nonfiction)
  • Ethan Johnson | The Beautiful Game and Anti-Blackness: A Memoir (nonfiction)
  • Agustín Lucas translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval | “La bici por un papel; Madre (poetry)
  • L. Leslie | Farming Footballers (nonfiction)
  • Courtney Lehmann| “Girls Don’t Play Soccer in this Town”: A Counter-Memory (nonfiction)
  • Florencia Orlandoni | Sabaleros (nonfiction)
  • Alfonso Sasieta | Ars Poetica: On Xavi & Iniesta in the 09’ Clásico When Barca Stunned Madrid 6-2 at the Bernabeu; To the Scissors (poetry)
  • Malak Silmi | Home Games (nonfiction)
  • Matthew Shirts | Playing Soccer in Brazil: Socrates, Corinthians, and Democracy (nonfiction)
  • Hannah Smith | Sports Bra; Locker Room (poetry)
  • Chrissy Stegman | At Nine, I Believed Diving Sideways Into the Air Could Stop the Rapid Collapse of My Family (poetry)
  • Shikha Valsalan | Inherited Geographies (nonfiction)

You can purchase the Spring 2026 issue here.

Link to the Spring 2026 Online Folio here.