Michigan Quarterly Review
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Michigan Quarterly Review is an eclectic, interdisciplinary journal of arts and culture seeking to combine the best of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as critical essays related to literature, culture, and current events.
Michigan Quarterly Review
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Published in Spring 2024 Online Folio the wind licks my knuckles again again a church bell mouths out another hour now a memory the park loses its fullness the last two boys playing catch leave as i pass i stand inside the yellow light pouring smartly out of a street lamp it digs my skin   ..read more
Michigan Quarterly Review
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The first thing I became aware of, as I stood blinking in the five-a.m. brightness of Taoyuan International Airport, was my own name staring back at me. It gleamed in thick black letters on a white poster board, but the poster wasn’t the strange part. The strange part was the individual holding it up. His ..read more
Michigan Quarterly Review
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Click here to view the African Writing Online Folio table of contents. Anna Almore is a relative, learner, and doctoral candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan. She received her bachelor’s in English with certificates in African American and American studies at Princeton University. Her work has been …
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Michigan Quarterly Review
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“What would any of us do / if freed?” So asks Caroline Harper New in her debut collection A History of Half-Birds, winner of the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. The poems here, both intimate and inquisitive, both personal and public, seethe with life in all its myriad forms: carob seeds “so consistently shaped …
Learning “how / to make a house of our ruin”: A Review of Caroline Harper New’s A History of Half-Birds Read More ..read more
Michigan Quarterly Review
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Published in Issue 63.2: Spring 2024 a second home from a second homea quarter home with women their children their homes their husbands thereshe is parting relaxed hair sectioningrecipes saving dresses for sunday trades survival tips a grin a thank youa whitening toothpaste a lightening creambrings experience to thankless desks saving for boots for the …
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Michigan Quarterly Review
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Katya Apekina made her debut in 2018 with her stunning novel The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish—in which teenaged sisters Edie and Mae are sent to New York to live with their estranged father after their mother’s suicide attempt. With her follow-up, Apekina once again probes complicated family dynamics, this time using pregnancy …
On the Trickle-Down Effects of Trauma: An Interview with Katya Apekina Read More ..read more
Michigan Quarterly Review
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Heran Abate is an Emmy-winning writer and producer from Addis Ababa. Her practice is deeply rooted in oral histories and an archive that she has collaboratively built over a decade of research. Her writing appears in Kweli Journal, Africa Is a Country, and a number of print anthologies in Africa and Europe. She holds an …
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Michigan Quarterly Review
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Before the stage at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum, I scribbled notes while Elaine Castillo crossed her legs and shared excerpts from her latest essay collection, How to Read Now. Under the soft spotlights, her critical reflections and sharp sarcasm captivated the audience. I found myself humming and nodding in agreement as Castillo deftly articulated many …
Beyond the Page: Decolonial Reading in How To Read Now Read More ..read more
Michigan Quarterly Review
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The greatest gain that ere I knew/ Was made in the blackness of the night– St. John of the Cross There are at least two renderings of Caravaggio’s Conversion of St. Paul, which was first commissioned in 1599 by a Roman treasurer, Tiberio Cerasi, for his familial chapel in the Santa Maria del Popolo. The …
Conversion’s Balance: On Jennifer Grotz’s Still Falling Read More ..read more
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Fred Moten lives in New York City and teaches at New York University where he is a Professor of Performance Studies. A Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of California, Riverside, he is renowned for his work as scholar, theorist, and poet. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, PEN America, poets.org, The …
Discomposition: An Interview with Fred Moten Read More ..read more