miCRo: “Lighthouse” by Kenneth Tanemura
In “Lighthouse,” work is inextricably linked to place: a place to which the speaker is a newcomer, with no ties to bind them to the landscape.
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miCRo: “Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story)” by Amorak Huey
A prose poem with nearly breathless syntax and a subtle build of rhetoric.
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miCRo: “Green Line” by Chen Poyu, translated by Nicholas Wong
Former contributor Nicholas Wong masterfully translates Chen Poyu’s haunting poem.
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miCRo: “The Salesmen” by Matt Barrett
Matt Barrett’s story about knife sellers begins with a book being cut down the spine and builds to a meditation on the weight and heft of words.
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miCRo: “Reclamation” by Parrissa Eyorokon
Like Jay Gatsby or the Lisbon Girls, the mushroom at the center of “Reclamation” wholly occupies the narrator’s–and, in turn the reader’s–attention.
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Announcing our Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions Nominees
We’re proud to nominate the following authors for this year’s Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions.
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Special Feature: Jim Palmarini’s “WELCOME TO THE READING”
A video ode to the places where poetry lives and has lived in Cincinnati, from contributor Jim Palmarini.
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miCRo: “No Babies Died in the Making of This” by Jenny Bitner
With candid facts and personal recollections, Jenny Bitner interrogates why flash fiction includes the deaths of children.
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Special Feature: Sarah Fawn Montgomery reads from “Playing House”
SarahFawn Montgomery reads from “Playing House,” her essay about doll-play and training for motherhood, from issue 20.2.
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miCRo: “Loss for Words” by Asma Al-Masyabi
In “Loss for Words” Asma Al-Masyabi explores the links between trauma and the loss of language, connection, community, and self.
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