miCRo: Seventeen Fouettés by Mark Wagenaar
Mark Wagenaar’s piece, “Seventeen Fouettés,” brilliantly shows us how violence juxtaposed with art and poetic language can infuse even the saddest of situations with hope.
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What We’re Reading: Spider Love Song and Other Stories by Nancy Au
Spider Love Song and Other Stories by Nancy Au is a short-story collection about stories—how narratives can be used to construct and deconstruct lived realities.
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microreview & interview: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage
I was first drawn to Taneum Bambrick’s full-length debut Vantage (Copper Canyon, 2019) because it had “an ecological eye,” but after reading the collection, I realize how much of a disservice it is to characterize this book solely as environmentally urgent.
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miCRo: “From an Agnostic” by Kyle Carrero Lopez
Parentheses usually indicate a digression, a nonessential thought, language without grammatical relation to its surroundings. Yet through them Lopez reshuffles the possibilities, demonstrating that what has been erased or discarded is often what is most essential, and ultimately questioning narrative-formation itself.
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excerpt from “We the Living” by John Miguel Shakespear
Tonight we the living gather to meditate on death—while eating hamburger sliders, in fact, and...
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excerpt from “How to Retile Your Bathroom in 6 Easy Steps!” by Gwen E. Kirby
1. Plan ahead. Remember, your bathroom will be out of commission for a few days. Grip the handle...
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“Wound Revision” by Emilia Phillips
On my medical records, the procedure’s sometimes called a scar revision, which makes more sense if...
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excerpt from “Duluth” by Ira Sukrungruang
My family feared white people. White people, after all, danced on our newly paved driveway,...
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“Bedside Pastoral” and “Procedural” by A. D. Lauren-Abunassar
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“Operation Rhododendron” by Samyak Shertok
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