Editorial Assistant Emily Rose Cole: There is little said in Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012) that I don’t wholeheartedly agree with. In fact, Ruefle’s meditations on craft put into words many truths I have always believed about poetry but could never fully articulate. In the essay “On Secrets,” for …
We are pleased to share this review by Tod Goldberg about Elmore Leonard’s rules for writing fiction, as evident in his novel Out of Sight (Delacorte, 1996). The essay appeared in Issue 19.1 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on the ethics and craft of crime writing (read the entire feature …
In our Issue 14.2, we feature a stunning story by Yxta Maya Murray, “YouTube Comment 2 to Video of I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys.” When we read and copyedited the story (read an excerpt here), we experienced it almost as a hybrid piece, with such developed descriptions of performance art …
We are pleased to share this review by Destiny O. Birdsong about an episode of Fatal Attraction, which appeared in Issue 19.1 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on the ethics and craft of crime writing (read the entire feature here): Fatal Attraction. Season 7, episode 15. “Wrong Turn.” Chad Cunningham, …
[Editor’s Note: Today’s miCRo is a special New Year’s treat; we’ll be back with more short, tasty miCRo pieces later in January. Happy New Year!] Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: In “new year’s poem,” G.C. Waldrep engages with the work of Joseph Cornell, a visual artist known for his surrealist-influenced assemblages that incorporate found materials. Waldrep’s …
We are pleased to share the entire review feature from Issue 19.1 on the ethics and craft of crime writing, including the following pieces: (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.)
Editorial Assistant Austin Allen: Inger Christensen’s Alphabet (New Directions, 2001) is a book that made me hesitate at first, then won me over. Its inventive structure, based on the Fibonacci sequence (the number of lines in each section follow the pattern 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.), impressed me as both clever and challenging, …
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[Editors’ note: The miCRo feature will take a month-long hiatus, with the exception of a special New Year’s Day poem. Thank you for your support in 2017; see you in 2018!] Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: As we told her when we accepted “Earthling,” Doris Cheng clearly trusts her readers as she weaves her flash …
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