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: “Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Should’ve Interviewed Some Women” by Bibi B.
by Cincinnati Review | Apr 24, 2024 | miCRo | 0
In a brilliant ekphrastic response to the controversial 2007 memoir Three Cups of Tea, Bibi B. challenges the silencing of women’s voices and lived experiences in literature and art.
Read MoremiCRo: “Curious and Entertaining Facts about Whales” by Daniel Uncapher
by Cincinnati Review | Apr 17, 2024 | miCRo | 0
We can speculate about anything.
Read MoremiCRo: “The Maternal Instinct of Snakes” by Michelle Ross
by Cincinnati Review | Apr 10, 2024 | miCRo | 0
In “The Maternal Instinct of Snakes,” Michelle Ross metes out just enough information, just in time, from an expertly chosen point-of-view, to complicate the reader’s allegiances.
Read MoremiCRo: “Stranger” by Chris Watkins
by Cincinnati Review | Apr 3, 2024 | miCRo | 0
In this ghazal, Chris Watkins skillfully crafts a narrative about a religious family and a speaker who sees things differently.
Read MoremiCRo: “Motherlode” by Therese Gleason
by Cincinnati Review | Mar 27, 2024 | miCRo | 0
Gleason invites us inside the psyche of a young speaker grappling with their father’s absence.
Read MoremiCRo: 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 | 1
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 | 1
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.
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