Watch our 2021 Anne Halley Poetry Prize-winner Abigail Chabitnoy read from her collection of poems as well as the winning poem “Girls Are Coming Out of the Water” from MR’s A Gathering of Native Voices issue. Purchase a signed Broadside of the poem today! ABIGAIL CHABITNOY is the author of How to Dress a . . .
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On Main Boulevard, the Ramzan traffic comes to a halt. The car heater makes a whirring noise. A thin layer of fog hovers in front of our Honda City. On the radio, the singer Junaid Jamshed recites a naat. In an interview, he has said that Pakistani women should stay at home. . . .
Read MoreThe 2021 winner of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize is Abigail Chabitnoy, for her poem “Girls Are Coming out of the Water,” from our Gathering of Native Voices issue (Volume 61, Issue 4). ABIGAIL CHABITNOY is the author of How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award for . . .
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Begin with a plantthen an animal. Moveyour way up the chain of needtill you’ve learned enoughabout sacrifice and scooping poopto join the ranks of mother.—from “Naturally,” Volume 62, Issue 1 (Spring 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.Let’s see. There is one that has always stuck with me. . . .
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Write to me—do not text—in your unpracticed hand.A postcard with a stamp. Write until you run out of room—up the sides in smaller and smaller letters, dear little e’s,outrageous y’s and confusing s’s; send a photograph—from “Mosses and Ivies,” Volume 62, Issue 1 (Spring 2021) Tell us about one of the first . . .
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Shattered silverfish bodies in the vanity globes,they know me. How I hate my body, how it’s been abandoning me. How I look up to the light to notsee mirrored back the emptying cup of my jaw,—from “To a Wild Place,” Volume 62, Issue 1 (Spring 2021) Tell us about one of the . . .
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Above the pitted black coast, at the house that looks accidentally built, the floodlights have been left on. The owner is not there. He only comes during the winter, when the waves rise and he can pick his way down the cliff to ride the surf off the reef, some two hundred . . .
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The Inaugural Kay Johnson Lecture in Asian American Studies at Hampshire College “The Chinese Must Go: A History of Anti-Asian Violence in the United States” Beth Lew-Williams, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University Wednesday 7 April 2021, 4:30 pm The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885 Following the massacre of . . .
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in 1980, my father saw my mother’s photo in a magazine, then left connecticut. road-tripped to meet her where she lived in arizona. who would stay in connecticut?—from “Qui Transtulit Sustinet,” Volume 62, Issue 2 (Spring 2021) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.How far back are we going? . . .
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(Photo: Adam Zagajewski, New York Times, 03/25/2021, Alamy) Adam Zagajewski, the great Polish poet and essayist, who died on March 21, wasn’t aloof, as some tried to paint him, especially in Poland, where he had many detractors in the poetry world; he was kind and generous with his time and advice. Was he . . .
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