Poems and Prose from the pages of the Michigan Quarterly Review
MQR Sound
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Poems and Prose from the pages of the Michigan Quarterly Review
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June 30, 2026
Spring 2026 | Celeste Lipkes Reads "Nocturnist"
<p><strong>A note about the work "Nocturnist" from Celeste Lipkes: </strong>“Ultimately, there are always several reasons for everything we do,” writes Judith Hermann “—those we know of, and those we suspect. And those we know nothing of.” It is these latter two categories that haunt my work as a writer, and have increasingly drawn me to the essay form. I began writing “Nocturnist” during the research block of my psychiatry residency; I finally had space and time to wonder why I had become obsessed with our neighborhood raccoon. Underneath this fixation was a deep loneliness, doubt about my career choices, fear of illness, and anger at the physical and emotional demands of contemporary medicine. For an essay with a lot of darkness, writing it was an incredibly instructive and joyful process—and a great excuse to read many books about one of our scrappiest urban neighbors. <strong> </strong></p>
June 30, 2026
Spring 2026 | Mary Jo Bang Reads "The Death"
<p><strong>A note about the work "The Death" from Mary Jo Bang: </strong>“The Death” is from The Museum of Mary, a book-length series of ekphrastic poems where each poem has a debt to a woman named Mary. My approach here, as with all the poems in the series, was to find an artwork that featured a Mary and use that as a stage setting from which a speaker could address any number of concerns. In this poem, the Virgin Mary, as the ever-watchful guardian religion says she is, speaks about the present-day world. It is believed that the original composition of the painting linked to this poem, Mantegna’s Death of the Virgin, included a second painting that was meant to hang above the first; they share the lines of a continuous architectural arch. It is in that second painting, Christ Bearing the Soul of the Virgin, that Christ holds a doll-sized statuette of the Virgin on his lap. The two are wreathed in a cloud punctuated by the heads and wings of red cherubs. The lower painting features Mary at her death, surrounded by eleven of the twelve apostles (one is away preaching). As with all persona poems, the hope is that the speaker, here a divine Mary, will have more authority than a mere poet when it comes to bringing attention to our human plight.</p>
June 26, 2026
Spring 2026 | Sarah Gerkensmeyer Reads "Wild Light"
<p><strong>A note about the work "Wild Light" from Sarah Gerkensmeyer: </strong></p><p>When my youngest son was in early grade school, he was asked (on a worksheet) to write a sentence using the words "wild" and "light." He wrote: "Is the light wild?" For about a decade now, that sentence has haunted me in a good way. I knew it could morph into the title of a future story, and perhaps even a future story collection. I didn't find a story to attach that title to until I took one of Lindsay Merbaum's incredible "Pick Your Potions" writing workshops called "The Forgotten: Lost Goddesses." As we read and discussed Carmen Boullosa's The Book of Eve (a feminist twist on the Book of Genesis) and several articles about how weird and monster-y and wonderful goddesses are (looking at myths about creation, fertility, etc., from all over the world), I realized that ordinary human women are very much monstrous goddesses. I was able to circle back to this title that has been haunting me for a very long time and have so much fun with it. </p>
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