Current Issue: Winter 2026 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Current Issue: Winter 2026

Table of Contents


Poetry

  • Christopher Bakken | Thessaloniki; Rembetika Theology; Nocturne
  • Kinsale Drake | Bareback Racing; Harold Drake Sr., Stella, my mother, and her siblings (Diné), photographed by Walter Edwards for National Geographic during their first boat trip on Lake Powell, offered after the rising man-made lake drowned the island that Harold farmed in Paiute Canyon (1967)
  • Rick Hilles | Portrait of My Brother as Cloud & Thunder
  • Lawrence Joseph | So I Try to Paint the Wind in Words; What Was I Remembering, and Repetitions
  • Adrianne Kalfopoulou | Sonnet #S 3, 6, 10
  • Tobi Kassim | Given a Laurel
  • Sati Mookherjee | Doll Wedding; Forest Rubaiyat
  • Mark Nowak | A B C F; H L M Z
  • Arthur Sze | Iridescence; Entropy
  • Richard Tillinghast | Tea
  • David Wojahn | Word Lantern; Elegy with Factoids

Fiction

  • Sebastian Edward Bliss | Visiting
  • Jesus De La Torre | Sunday at Mt. Carmel
  • Sara Lippmann | Slaughterhouse Rules
  • DC Restaino | Our Silence Will Not Save You
  • Anthony Varallo | Songs Anyone Might Like

Nonfiction

  • Sophie Ezzell | Fear It
  • Mai Serhan | I Can Imagine It for Us
  • Daniel Uncapher | Smouldering Fagots
  • MaKshya Tolbert | Shade walk: “a life in rehearsal” (east-west) | Winner of the 2025 James A. Winn Prize in Nonfiction

You can purchase the Winter 2026 issue here.