Tag: travel

miCRo: “Here’s a Love Poem to Rick Steves Watching Rick Steves’ Iran” by Darius Atefat-Peckham

by Cincinnati Review | Aug 18, 2021 | miCRo | 0

This poem’s speaker inhabits the experience of travel expert Rick Steves watching a video of himself visiting Iran, straddling the line between critique/satire and a kind of compassion.

miCRo: from Survivor’s Notebook: “Good Friday 2” by Dan O’Brien

by Cincinnati Review | May 20, 2020 | miCRo | 0

In this poem, Dan O’Brien shows us the coexistence of belief and doubt, the skeptic with an open mind, the observer with an eye for both the sublime and the terrestrial.