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Michelle Menting’s lyric microessay “Of Precipice” moves with the vibrations of haiku, tanka, epigrams, and other short and imagistic poems

Steven Espada Dawson’s sonnet about the Los Angeles area creates a compelling scene about the complexity of the lost Eden.

In the short, clipped sentences and fragments of “Superjap,” KJ Nakazawa-Kern narrates an uncle and nephew’s trip to Japan.

In an era of political division, this imaginative poem by Martha Silano details a literal division of the US back in the Cretaceous period.

In the prose poem “34D,” Dorothy Chan uses a number and a letter to conjure up particular images that the poem both mentions and undercuts, in a statement about the poetics of sex.

Two essays that grapple with the place of women in history, specifically an enslaved Native ancestor and a prehistoric “greatest grandmother.”

In two pieces that feature mothers with dementia, Beth Ann Fennelly shows us again why her work is central to contemporary enthusiasm for the form of the microessay.