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MQR Sound


Some things are better seen and heard. Listen to author-recorded performances of poems from recent MQR issues.

Fall 2024 | Marissa Davis Reads "Excerpts from Skyside" MQR Sound

A note about the work “Excerpts from Skyside” from Stéphanie Ferrat translated by Marissa Davis for the Michigan Quarterly Review's Fall 2024 Translation Issue: I stumbled upon Skyside at a poetry fair in Paris several years ago, and it captivated me from the first page. As a painter as well as a poet, Ferrat imbues her work with meditations on the creative process, touching on both the miracles and the banalities (and the miracles within the banalities) of artmaking. Her language is often tinged with the surrealist, leaping from subject to subject in a kind of textual collage–a challenge, but also a thrill, for me as a translator. Skyside's fearless experimentation, philosophical contemplation, and camaraderie with the natural world sing to me with every read. 
  1. Fall 2024 | Marissa Davis Reads "Excerpts from Skyside"
  2. Fall 2024 | Jacob Rogers Reads "The Easy Part"
  3. Summer 2024 | Terry Ann Thaxton Reads "Mother of Stone"
  4. Summer 2024 | Patrycja Humienik Reads "Archival"
  5. Summer 2024 | Peter E. Murphy Reads "So Like a Waking"
  6. Summer 2024 | Charlie Sorrenson Reads "Ideal Customers"
  7. Summer 2024 | Jodie Noel Vinson Reads “In Defense of Aunt Léonie"
  8. Summer 2024 | Leila Chatti Reads "Once I Was Beautiful Now I Am Myself"
  9. Summer 2024 | Cortney Lamar Charleston Reads “It's Important I Remember that the Enemy Is Always Within"
  10. Summer 2024 | Steffi Sin Reads “For Girls Who Talk Too Much at Lunch”
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