Author: Qu Literary Magazine

  • Elegy at Lake Murray

    And what of the pines branching over the lake? Am I to take them as a sign, these few drops of rain as mercy?

  • A Prayer for Marriage

    Let there be woman deranged made of words: gardeners and snow-ghosts, moving lips and butterfly-knots. Let there be.

  • Every Anonymous City

    I knew a girl who closed her eyes every time she heard a car horn…

  • Reservations

    Mid-morning. LIGHTS UP on EDGAR and MAE. MAE stands at a kitchen sink washing and drying morning dishes. EDGAR sits at a kitchen table, reading a newspaper. EDGAR Good breakfast, Mae. (MAE turns to him.) MAE Thank you, Edgar.

  • J. Weintraub

    J. Weintraub has published fiction, essays, translations, and poetry in several publications including The Massachusetts Review to Modern Philology, Prairie Schooner and Gastronomica. He is a recipient of Illinois Arts Council Awards for fiction and creative nonfiction as well as the John P. McGrath Memorial Prize for Fiction from the Barrington Arts Council. Find out…

  • Judith Skillman

    Judith Skillman has published fourteen collections of poetry. Her latest book is Broken Lines—The Art & Craft of Poetry, Lummox Press. Her poems have appeared in FIELD, Midwest Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets and others.…

  • Claudia Barnett

    Claudia Barnett teaches playwriting at Middle Tennessee State University and is the author of I Love You Terribly: Six Plays, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2012.

  • Jeffrey Fischer-Smith

    Jeffrey Fischer-Smith’s plays have been produced at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, The Secret Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Café, The Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Beckett Theatre, The Hangar Theatre (with The Drama League and Playwrights Horizons), and Cornell University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and The Playwrights’ Center. Jeffrey…

  • Gary L. McDowell

    Gary L. McDowell is the author of Weeping at a Stranger’s Funeral (Dream Horse Press, 2014) and American Amen (Dream Horse Press, 2010). His work is forthcoming in The Nation, Green Mountains Review, Prairie Schooner, The Journal, and The Laurel Review, among others.