excerpt from “Vines” by O Thiam Chin
Peng Soon had knocked the glass of vodka and lime out of Paul’s hand at Taboo the first time they...
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miCRo: “Take, Eat: For colored boys who stop inviting me to ‘fuck it up’ after my Milly Rock goes Vogue” by Marcus Donaldson
Marcus Donaldson’s poem is akin to the song that you stop everything to dance to when it comes on in the club.
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Special Feature: “Thoughts & Prayers Inc.: A Play[gue]” by Nathan Dixon
This one-act play is a relentless excavation of gun violence through the language of sympathy cards, a children’s song, and raw statistics.
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miCRo: “On Saturn It Rains Diamonds” by Christine Kwon
This prose poem name-drops brands in a way that seems to extol consumer spending—until a final turn.
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We’re Hiring for a New Position: Assistant Managing Editor
We’re hiring for a new position, assistant managing editor!
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Contributors Shena McAuliffe and Tessa Yang’s Dual Interview
Authors of two recent story collections interview each other about genre decisions, the surprises and delights of publication, and how they define success.
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miCRo: “To All the Souls Who Can’t Yet Read” by Nadia Born
In this story told in the imperative second-person point of view, reading is literally ingesting words and images.
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Writers’ Day Jobs: Jenna Le
Poet and physician Jenna Le on what radiology and poetry have in common.
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miCRo: “What’s on your mind, KB?” by KB Brookins
This poem from KB Brookins’s forthcoming collection bridges the genres of love poem and political poem.
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miCRo: “The Uterus Belongs to the Family” by Stefanie Kirby
Stefanie Kirby’s extended exploration of the uterus complicates our sense of a part of the body often linked just to reproduction.
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