The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought Spring 2025 theme is “Library Issue(s)” with Guest Editor Sara DeCaro and includes the articles “The Options when DEI Initiatives in Libraries are Not Working or Nonexistent” by Casey Phillips, “Digital Commons and Accessibility” by Madison Price, “Mathematical Marvels in a Midwestern Library” by Cynthia Huffman, “The Rise and Fall of Wine Gardens in Kansas City 1880-1920” by Sara DeCaro, “From TV Screen to Family Scene: Bluey and the Art of Invitational Rhetoric” by Blayne Thorton, and “Unreconciled Visions of War: Japan and America in World War II (A Literature Review)” by David F. DiMeo, as well as a selection of new poems.

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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought Winter 2025 is a special issue, “The Future. From a Woman’s Perspective,” guest edited by Judy B. Smetana, Interim Associate Dean for the Crossland College of Technology and Associate Professor and the HRD Graduate Program Coordinator in the School of Technology and Workforce Learning, Pittsburg State University. The articles in this issue include “Exploring the Intersectional Experiences of Black Women in Fortune 500 Companies” by Shana Yarberry, “Remote Work for Women in the Workplace: A Balancing Act to Doing It All” by Kayla Thomas, “Webs of Worry: Women and Financial Anxiety” by Goldie Prelogar-Hernandez, “Leading Through Change: An Adaptive Mindset” by Julie D. Dainty, “Business as an Agent of Individual Fulfillment” by Preeti D’mello, “A Word Please: The Effects of Using ‘Pussy’ as a Microaggression” by Erin Jordan, a selection of poetry, and the team-authored study, “Female Students’ Aspirations and Study in the U.S.: Voices of Gen Z from Uzbekistan.”

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Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought is published by Pittsburg State University with the expressed purpose “to discover and publish scholarly articles dealing with a broad range of subjects of current interest” to encourage “discussions of an analytical and speculative nature.” The Fall 2024 issue includes articles by Stephanie Alexander (“The Spectacular Feminine Body: (Re)Writing Maternity in Rich, Walker, and Cisneros”), Christopher Au (“‘I think of old friends’: Reflective Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Speculative Fiction Narrators”), Pingfan Zhang (“The Cinematic Past and Literary Present of Yan Geling’s Novel The Flowers of War [2012]), David McCracken (“Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ as Recovery Story”), Ian Hall (“Shirkers and Sophisticates: Contrasting Notions of Class, Caste, and Status in Absalom, Absalom!“) Phillip Frank & Donald Baack (“Connection? Conspiracy Theories and Influencer Marketing: An Analysis Using Core Marketing Spokesperson Characteristics”). The issue also includes a folio of thirty-seven poems by Ted Kooser.

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The Midwest Quarterly: Journal of Contemporary Thought Spring 2024 is a special issue on “Craft of Writing” guest edited by Lori Martin. Articles include “Horse, Hasp, and Shed: A Narrative on Craft” by Mark Sanders, “How and Why I Write About Violence” by Yuly Restrepo Garcés, “The Poem Knows More Than We Do: Learning to Let Go Through the Art of Listening” by George Kalamaras, “That Goddamn Picnic Scene: Some Thoughts on Revision” by Patrick Ryan, “Figuratively Speaking: A Few Words in Praise of Metaphor” by Christopher Todd Anderson, “The Art and Craft of Writing and Publishing in Children’s Markets” by Cassie Hermansson, “Language is the Other Sun” by S. Portico Bowman, “The Art of Failure” by Chase Dearinger, and “On Entering the Writing to Wellness Life” by Laura Sweeney. Also featured are poems by Robert L. Dean, Jr., John Dorroh, Pamela Manasco, Alita Pirkopf, Andy Roberts, and Joannie Stangeland.

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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought Fall 2023 issue features a wide range of essays to pique reader’s interests: “Outbreak Communication: Exploring the Relationships between Health Information Seeking Behaviors, Vested Interests, and COVID-19 Knowledge in U.S. Midwest Populations,” “Emblematics Related to Émilie du Châtelet: Voltaire’s Mistress, Muse, and More,” “A Contemporary Overview of Dyslexia,” “‘Façades for Emptiness’: Jim Thompson’s The Nothing Man,” “The Therapeutic Role of Animals in Health Care: From Before Florence Nightingale to Current Practice,” and “Homo Athletica to Homo Digitalis: Esports as Sport.” This along with poems by Allison Blevins, Paul Dickey, Rob Hardy, Marianne Kunkel, David Lee, and Chad Weeden fill the pages to challenge and entertain. Cover photo by Saketh Garuda.

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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought is published quarterly in print by Pittsburg State University and accepts submissions of poetry and essays on contemporary subjects “interesting and readable by a non-specialist reader.” The objective of the publication is “to discover and publish scholarly articles dealing with a broad range of subjects of current interest.” A sampling of articles in the newest issue includes: “Human Cargo: The Zombie as Metaphor for Aboriginal Restoration” by Liza Harville; “Understanding Individual Differences in the Dimensions of ‘Vestedness’ within Midwestern Populations toward the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) during Early-Stage Pandemic Onset” by A. M. Mason, Josh Compton, and Elizabeth Spencer; “The BaFa’ BaFa’ Cultural Simulation: A High-Leverage Teaching Practice to Increase Cultural Awareness” by Grant Moss and Harriet Bachner; and “Sustaining our Academic Careers amidst COVID-19: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Women Academicians” by Judy Smetana, Krissy Lewis, and Tatiana Goris. And for poetry, an interview with and a substantial portfolio of poems by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg.