MQR 60:4 | Fall 2021 | Why We Write
Table of Contents
Foreword
Poetry
- Ayelet Amittay | HOW TO WRITE A POEM AFTER 45
- Evan Anders | A BARISTA TRAINING MANUAL FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS
- S. Erin Batiste | AS A BLACK WOMAN, NOT WRITING*
- Victoria Chang | THE SHIPWRECK
- Tongo Eisen-Martin | FREE FEAR
- Dennis Etzel Jr. | [MANEUVER THE FIGURE]; [OF INTERNAL]
- Alfonso Gatto (Translated by Lisa Mullenneaux) | FOR THE MARTYRS OF PIAZZALE LORETO ; APRIL 25TH
- April Gibson | 3X5 EKPHRASIS OF A PAST LIFE 3 X 5
- Diane Glancy | VENTRILOQUISM AND A TREATISE ON WRITING [MAINLY HISTORICAL] WHICH I OFTEN DO
- Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Naïr | A DIFFERENT DISTANCE
- Erika Howsare | ÉTUDE (POETICS)
- Kim Hyesoon (Translated by Don Mee Choi) | LITTLE POEM
- Mateo Morrison (Translated by Ariel Francisco) | TIRED OF HOLDING; EMOTIONS FOR ISLANDS
- Andrew Navarro | SINCE THIS IS A CHICANO POEM
- Julianne Neely | LANDSCAPE; TIDAL
- Esteban Oloarte | THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TEMPERAMENT; LABOR DAY
- Nasser Rabah (Translated by the Brooklyn Translation Collective) | IN THE ENDLESS WAR; BACKGROUND MUSIC FOR LIFE
- Cecilia Solá (Translated by Margaret Randall) | EMPTY WOMB
- Laura Stephenson | A RENAISSANCE WITHIN THE REPUBLIC
- Bethany Swann | CONFESSIONS FROM THE PSYCHIC NOWHERE
- Martín Tonalmeyotl (Translated by Whitney DeVos) | UNDER THE NIGHT SKY; CHILAPEÑOS
- Priscilla Wathington | THIS DOCUMENT HAS NO LEGAL STATUS AND IS NOT BOUND BY ITS CONTENT; CATALOG 133982; FLAG THE MOON; CATALOGUE 122317
Nonfiction
- Victoria M. Abboud | LINEAGE
- Kyle Daniel-Bey, Kristin Palm, Kenneth Tello, & Walter Lucken IV | THE TABLE
- Eddie P. Gomez | A NIGHT AT THE THEATER: ON CHAOS AND FATE
- Kiese Laymon | REPAIR, RENEW, REVISE, REVISE, REVISE
- Tan Tuck Ming | THE FEELING THAT EXCEEDS US
- Cristina Morales (Translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn) | FIRST ENTRY FROM MY LOCKDOWN JOURNAL : IF YOU WANT MORE, PAY UP, BECAUSE UNLESS IT’S IN EXCHANGE FOR CASH, I HAVE NO NEED TO ENGAGE IN LITERARY EXPRESSION DURING THESE DAYS OF AUTHORITARIAN REVELRY, NOT TO PROVIDE ASSISTED BREATHING TO KEEP ANY COMMUNITY OF CULTURAL CONSUMPTION ALIVE
- Hind Shoufani | RETINENTIA
Fiction
- Khalifa Al-Fakhri (Translated by Khaled Mattawa) | A SEASON OF STORIES
- Preston Gralla | JOSEF STALIN’S HURDY-GURDY MAN
- Emily Greenberg | BLACK BOX
- Naomi Shuyama-Gómez | THE COMMANDER’S TEETH
- Moikom Zeqo (Translated by Loredana Mihani & Wayne Miller) | WIFE OF THE MAN WITH HORSE SHOES; THE CYPRESS AND THE PROPHET BUDDHA; ZAMDAK KUBRU VARSAN, PRINCE OF SAINTS
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