MQR Issue 61:3,
Summer 2022
Cover art by Nakayama Tadashi. Courtesy of Jeffrey Hendricks.
Table of Contents
Poetry
- Lena Khalaf Tuffaha | AUTOCORRECT (Winner of the Laurence Goldstein Prize)
- Kathleen Winter | HALF-LIVES OF THE POETS
- Stephen Gibson | MONKEYSHINES
- Debora Kuan | REPUTATIONS, OR AFTER TRYING TO IMAGINE MY DAUGHTER AT 18; HOW TO LIVE WITH YOUR HUSBAND
- Lauren Eggert-Crowe | BUT OUR CERTAINTY WAS ALWAYS BOUGHT WITH TEETH; SELF PORTRAIT AS WEATHER.COM; QUEEN OF ANY WORLD THAT TOOK ME
- Rebecca Levi | MATEO
- Asnia Asim | THE PRINCE OF INDIAN SUMMER; TREES; SECOND LOVE
- Ashley Crout | EVERY FRESH LOSS RESURRECTS ALL LOSSES
- Haro Lee | VINCENT IS WAITING; CARRIAGE; MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S PORCH
- Tyler Moore | BAUHAUS
- Gabriella Fee | DEAR BOY
Nonfiction
- Laurence Goldstein | MORE FAREWELLS TO MARILYN
- Sylvia Chan | A TECHNOLOGIST’S TRAVELS AND TRAVAILS WITH THE COLOUR GREEN
- Cynthia Gralla | THE TENDER NARRATION OF FLOWERS
- Nathaniel Perry | WHEN REACHING IS THE RULE: PLEASURE AND PURPOSE IN GWENDOLYN BROOKS
- Mekiya Walters | THE TITLE IS YOUR NAME
Fiction
- Jeneé Skinner | FIELDS LAID BARE (Winner of the Jesmyn Ward Prize)
- Brian Castleberry | NIGHT OF THE DARK RITUAL
- William Pei Shih | EX-LIVES
- Zeynep Özakat | WHAT HAPPENS AFTER
- Julie Pecoraro | THE DARK AGES
