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Michigan Quarterly Review

3574 Rackham Bldg.

915 E. Washington St.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070

Phone: (734) 764-9265

E-mail: mqr@umich.edu

Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 4-6 weeks Payment: yes (see website) Contests: no ISSN: 0026-2420 Founded: 1962 Distributors: Ubiquity Issues per year: 4 Average pages: 200 Sample copy (postpaid): $4 for back issue Cover Price: $7; $9 special issue Subscription: $25

Publisher’s Description: Michigan Quarterly Review attempts to combine the best qualities of a literary journal with the intellectual rigor of an academic or scholarly journal. Investigative and speculative essays mingle with imaginative writing from the likes of Philip Levine, (the late) Arthur Miller, and Joyce Carol Oates—our contributing editors—and new writers whose reputations lie before them. Recent special issues have explored "The Documentary Imagination," "Viet Nam: Beyond the Frame," and the "Secret Spaces of Childhood."

Writing from MQR is regularly reprinted in prize anthologies and textbooks. Recent topics include Holocaust poetry, pastoral, cinephilia, robotics, 9/11, art vandalism, Samuel Beckett, Shanghai, dictionaries, good and bad medicine. We publish poetry and fiction that engage in such topics as well as the perennial subjects of self, family, sexuality. The editor insists on "answerable style"—that is, language that is equal in gravity, complexity, clarity, and wit to the subjects it explores.

Recent issue:

Volume 46 Number 4, Fall 2007
Eric J. Sundquist on Martin Luther King’s “Dream” speech, Susan Balee on Tom Stoppard and David Hare, Enoch Brater on the role of suitcases onstage, Krzysztof Czyzewski on Czeslaw Milosz’s return to Poland; poetry by Milosz, Julia Hartwig, Molly Peacock, Linda Pastan, and others; plus fiction and reviews.

Volume 46 Number 3, Summer 2007
Judith Labensohn, Berel Lang, and Mahmoud Shukair explore Jerusalem. Susan Stamberg gives the Hopwood Lecture; Lisa Knopp writes about the prairie. Fiction: Avital Gad-Cykman, Daniel Herwitz Poetry: Karen Alkalay-Gut, Yakov Azriel, Charlotte Boulay, Hayan Charara, Nidaa Khouri, Nan Knighton, Sabina Messeg, Alan Williamson, David Woo. Reviews: two books on the Levant; Elias Khoury; Albert Memmi; Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling