On Writing About Place: Appalachia
How can we write against the generalities about places we’ve lived, especially Appalachia?
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Author: Cincinnati Review
miCRo: “Flare” by Chrissy Martin
In her microessay on chronic pain, Chrissy Martin breaks down and redefines the language of suffering and resilience.
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Two Poems by Bernardo Wade
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Two Poems by Oksana Maksymchuk
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“Married, Filing Separately” by Claire McQuerry
was always our tax status. There’s no lovein money. Sometimes there’s no love in love.Sometimes...
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“Fifty years after the war” by Emma Miao
grandma unfolds her dress, & 1967 patternsinto life, its story mapped in provinces, in...
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“diseases of unwed girls” by Maria Zoccola
title from Hippocrates, translated by David Hayden Camden my body wants a babydespite the...
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excerpt from “Beaches” by Barbara Paulus
I am playing the role of a little old lady, pleasantly plump and talkative, telling her life...
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excerpt from “The Force of a Sentence” by Mildred K. Barya
The Sentence My father’s heart exhausted itself. Cardiac arrest, the cardiologist said. A man was...
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excerpt from “El Míster” by Juan Fernando Villagómez
Señora Pérez’s house was too small for the four of us to go inside. El Míster and my abuela waited...
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