miCRo: Three Erasures by Tarik Dobbs
Three pieces from a riveting series that uses erasure and collage of historical documents from the Ford Motor Company to examine Arab American migration in the early twentieth century.
miCRo: “How to make me orgasm” by Lucy Zhang
In “How to make me orgasm,” Lucy Zhang uses the language of engineering manuals, business-speak, and rich cuisine to evoke the speaker’s needs.
miCRo: “Ð, the Letter Edh” by William Woolfitt
This essay describes a letter lost to modern English but also flora and fauna now gone from both England, birthplace of the language, and West Virginia, a landscape shaped by loss.
miCRo: “Branding Day” by Jane O. Wayne
Wayne reminds us that remembering always comes with the price of reliving the moment.
miCRo: “[those ‘mexicans for golovkin’ shirts]” by JD Debris
The speaker of this poem is both voiceover and musical soundtrack at once, singing us through their experience…
miCRo: “Checking” by Sarah Beth Childers
With a dying Granddad sleeping downstairs and a newborn Lydia sleeping upstairs, the speaker of this piece hovers in the purgatory between…
miCRo: “Ortolan” by Lauren Osborn
Lauren Osborn’s microfiction “Ortolan” drops us into the intersection of hunger and desire, the crossroad where they meet and become one.
miCRo: “Cry” and “Dad’s Weekend” by Luke Wortley
In this miCRo double feature, we get a lyrical glimpse into the complicated world of fatherhood.
miCRo: “My Family and I Disagree about Politics” by Heather Lanier
Heather Lanier’s poem looks at family disagreements about politics through the lens of the body in a surgical theater, being cut into.
miCRo: “Knowing” by Amy Chen
In Amy Chen’s essay “Knowing,” innocence and family secrets come together to create a profound change in the speaker and her understanding of her world.
miCRo: “On Injury” by Anni Liu
In this piece, as the text notches inward through the use of indentations, mimicking a scaffold, the boundary between inside and outside starts to break down…
miCRo: “Origins” by Kelly Fig Smith
“Origins” by Kelly Fig Smith weaves together issues of identity, history, and the body to form a complicated and compelling picture of family and motherhood.
