miCRo: “The Landscape Painter” by Matthew Thorburn
An ekphrastic prose poem that makes the artifact embodied through a narrative.
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Sep 10, 2025 | miCRo
An ekphrastic prose poem that makes the artifact embodied through a narrative.
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Sep 5, 2025 | On Craft, Special Features
A craft essay on how writers can best depict rural America without resorting to “poverty porn.”
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 29, 2025 | What We're Reading
A book of nonfiction written like a novel, moving with and then past the genre of true crime
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 27, 2025 | miCRo
A starkly titled prose poem about a figurative ocean of blackness.
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 20, 2025 | Samples
Story from Issue 22.1
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 20, 2025 | miCRo
A sharp, lyrical meditation on the vulnerability and rage at moving through public space in a queer, feminine body.
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 15, 2025 | Special Features
A complex essay by Debra Spark in which the story told is someone else’s, a woman who learns about her mother’s past
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Aug 1, 2025 | Special Features
Brenna Womer’s powerful visual erasures of her mother’s letters.
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Jul 11, 2025 | Writers' Day Jobs
Gabrielle Grace Hogan, writer for Autostraddle and a poet.
Read MorePosted by Lisa Ampleman | Jul 8, 2025 | Samples
title taken from Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem I walked like a rage into the body of my life, which...
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