Cincinnati Review

In an era of political division, this imaginative poem by Martha Silano details a literal division of the US back in the Cretaceous period.

In the prose poem “34D,” Dorothy Chan uses a number and a letter to conjure up particular images that the poem both mentions and undercuts, in a statement about the poetics of sex.

Arthur Kayzakian’s compact ekphrastic prose poem “Anna Walinska” navigates big-picture questions of art and consumption.

Two essays that grapple with the place of women in history, specifically an enslaved Native ancestor and a prehistoric “greatest grandmother.”

Natalie Yap’s story “Santa Maria” asks us to consider the unconventional ways we let go of life and each other.

In two pieces that feature mothers with dementia, Beth Ann Fennelly shows us again why her work is central to contemporary enthusiasm for the form of the microessay.