miCRo: “Tea and Seeds” by Yasmine Yu
In her first publication, Yasmine Yu shows us the physical yearning for one’s own lost cultural inheritance.
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One-Question Interviews: Bess Winter and Brenda Peynado on Purpose and Validation
From agent trouble to 18-hour minimum-wage jobs, Bess Winter and Brenda Peynado know the difficulties of the writer’s life. Over email, they talked to CR about how they reframed the conversation and reclaimed the joy of the craft.
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One-Question Interviews: Gwen Kirby and Liv Stratman on Purpose and Validation
To kick off the Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Festival, we talked to authors Gwen Kirby and Liv Stratman about developing an artistic sense of purpose
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miCRo: “Had Penelope a kiln, she would outcast” by Purvi Shah
Purvi Shah transforms myth into a needle-sharp meditation on bodiless, action, history, and more.
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Why We Like It: “Here or Somewhere Else, or, The Grain Silo” by Sharon Kunde
We revisit Sharon Kunde’s haunting, wrecked landscape with its trains, silos, and blurring speed.
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miCRo: “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Matthew Tuckner
Tuckner explores the passage of time, and its painful collisions, in a couple’s deceptively ordinary afternoon.
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miCRo: “Hit the Tree” by Denise Bergman
Bergman’s writing is breathless, a strategic babbling attempt to catalog all of the details of a car accident.
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Claire Denson reads her poem “Hibernation”
Claire Denson reads her poem “Hibernation” from our Issue 19.2.
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“Hibernation” by Claire Denson
One season my stomach shrankfrom staying in bed for monthsso hungry. When bears hibernate, their...
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“[To be a child again.]” by Katie Berta
To be a child again. Is my wish. Something earthy and pleasant. Something before knowledge....
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