Category: miCRo
miCRo: Emilia Phillips’s “‘You S...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Sep 27, 2017 | miCRo | 0
miCRo, the video!
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Sep 22, 2017 | miCRo | 0
miCRo: Laura Maylene Walter’s “Break A...
Posted by Cincinnati Review | Sep 20, 2017 | miCRo | 0
miCRo: Two Pieces by Jeremy Paden
by Cincinnati Review | Mar 13, 2024 | miCRo | 0
& zhe answered, yes, the certain are so very much like tractor trailers
barreling down a mountain speedway
Read MoremiCRo: “Story of a Breath” by Ryan Griffith
by Cincinnati Review | Mar 6, 2024 | miCRo | 0
Are the stories that we tell about objects, and the quests for those stories, more important than the objects, themselves? In “Story of a Breath” one object’s history is perfectly encapsulated—and forever inaccessible.
Read MoremiCRo: “A Boy Lies Face Down” by Dmitry Blizniuk, translated by Sergey Gerasimov
by Cincinnati Review | Feb 28, 2024 | miCRo | 0
This poem expands the vocabulary of war writing with its stunning breadth of images.
Read MoremiCRo: “The Mint and the Bees” by Joel Long
by Cincinnati Review | Feb 21, 2024 | miCRo | 0
Joel Long’s flash nonfiction piece “The Mint and the Bees” meditates on the crucial interdependence between pollinator and flower.
Read MoremiCRo: “Fried Rice” by Tina S. Zhu
by Cincinnati Review | Feb 14, 2024 | miCRo | 0
Don’t let the ghosts take your names, Ba said over the hiss of the wok harmonizing with the ghosts. Don’t let them steal your spirits.
Read MoremiCRo: “Lighthouse” by Kenneth Tanemura
by Cincinnati Review | Jan 31, 2024 | miCRo | 0
In “Lighthouse,” work is inextricably linked to place: a place to which the speaker is a newcomer, with no ties to bind them to the landscape.
Read MoremiCRo: “Ledge (ars poetica) (love poem) (true story)” by Amorak Huey
by Cincinnati Review | Jan 24, 2024 | miCRo | 0
A prose poem with nearly breathless syntax and a subtle build of rhetoric.
Read MoremiCRo: “Green Line” by Chen Poyu, translated by Nicholas Wong
by Cincinnati Review | Jan 17, 2024 | miCRo | 0
Former contributor Nicholas Wong masterfully translates Chen Poyu’s haunting poem.
Read MoremiCRo: “The Salesmen” by Matt Barrett
by Cincinnati Review | Jan 10, 2024 | miCRo | 0
Matt Barrett’s story about knife sellers begins with a book being cut down the spine and builds to a meditation on the weight and heft of words.
Read MoremiCRo: “Reclamation” by Parrissa Eyorokon
by Cincinnati Review | Dec 20, 2023 | miCRo | 2
Like Jay Gatsby or the Lisbon Girls, the mushroom at the center of “Reclamation” wholly occupies the narrator’s–and, in turn the reader’s–attention.
Read MoremiCRo: “No Babies Died in the Making of This” by Jenny Bitner
by Cincinnati Review | Dec 13, 2023 | miCRo | 0
With candid facts and personal recollections, Jenny Bitner interrogates why flash fiction includes the deaths of children.
Read MoremiCRo: “Loss for Words” by Asma Al-Masyabi
by Cincinnati Review | Dec 6, 2023 | miCRo | 0
In “Loss for Words” Asma Al-Masyabi explores the links between trauma and the loss of language, connection, community, and self.
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