Category: miCRo
miCRo: Emilia Phillips’s “‘You S...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Sep 27, 2017 | miCRo | 0
miCRo: Laura Maylene Walter’s “Break A...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Sep 20, 2017 | miCRo | 0
miCRo: “Benevolent Ruler” by Mary Ardery
by Lisa Ampleman | Jun 25, 2025 | miCRo | 0
An essay in which the quotidian overlies concerns about women’s health
Read MoremiCRo: “The Red Negligee” by Jenny Molberg
by Lisa Ampleman | Jun 18, 2025 | miCRo | 0
A poem about a honeymoon and a stranded giant Pacific chiton
Read MoremiCRo: “A Village Tries On Her Skin,” by A. A. Balaskovits
by Bess Winter | Jun 11, 2025 | miCRo | 0
In this Shirley Jackson-like fable, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference.
Read MoremiCRo: “Sonnet As First Words” by Elane Kim
by Lisa Ampleman | Jun 4, 2025 | miCRo | 0
An internally expansive sonnet about the interplay of language, family, and country.
Read MoremiCRo: “The News” by Laurie Blauner
by Bess Winter | May 28, 2025 | miCRo | 0
From the very first line of “The News,” we’re plunged into an absurdist reality that we slowly come to realize is just reality as we know it.
Read MoremiCRo: “Lion” by Nandini Bhattacharya
by Lisa Ampleman | May 21, 2025 | miCRo | 0
A tight and powerful piece about a lion and its violent transgressions.
Read MoremiCRo: “The Eco-Audiologist, After Hearing” by Haley Bossé
by Lisa Ampleman | May 14, 2025 | miCRo | 0
A meditative eco-miCRo that asks us to slow down and witness the missing.
Read MoremiCRo: “The Violet Hour” by Radian Hong
by Lisa Ampleman | May 7, 2025 | miCRo | 0
This prose poem captures a modern relationship hollow from within, echoing T. S. Eliot.
Read MoremiCRo: “May the circle be broken” by Bob Hicok
by Lisa Ampleman | Apr 30, 2025 | miCRo | 0
A masterful poem that moves from harm to care
Read MoremiCRo: “Push-Pull” by Robert Warf
In Robert Warf’s “Push-Pull,” driving yields a kind of oppositional syntax.
Read MoremiCRo: “(FG+FD+FM+FB) = ” by M.E. Macuaga
by Kate Jayroe | Apr 16, 2025 | miCRo | 0
Projectile motion as we knew it. The calculable, imaginable universe.
Read MoremiCRo: “Aspen” by Michael O’Ryan
Michael O’Ryan’s cinematographic poem is imbued with a sibyllic mood.
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