Special Feature: “Thoughts & Prayers Inc.: A Play[gue]: by Nathan Dixon
This one-act play is a relentless excavation of gun violence through the language of sympathy cards, a children's song, and raw statistics.
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miCRo: “On Saturn It Rains Diamonds” by Christine Kwon
This prose poem name-drops brands in a way that seems to extol consumer spending—until a final turn.
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Association of Controlled Dreamers in Performance This Week
In Issue 15.1, we debuted our plays-in-progress feature, curated by Drama Editor Brant Russell,...
Celebrate Acre Books at the Mercantile Library
We’re happy to announce that our sister press, Acre Books, has its first title, A Very Angry...
Are You Gonna Go My Way? The Inclusiveness of Second Person
What makes second-person narration so compelling? What makes it so polarizing? In this essay, Jen Michalski reflects on the magnetic pull of "you."
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A Year in Blogs
What's fascinated CR blog-writers these past few months?
What We’re Reading: Crooked Smiling Light
Violence, King argues, is something Black men must inherit to survive even their own blood.
