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miCRo: Brian Ma’s “Shadows on the Korean Peninsula”

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Nov 7, 2017 | miCRo

Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: Brian Ma’s nonfiction piece “Shadows on the...

“Morning in Galilee,” by Brian Tierney

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Tierney for website See more poems from Issue 14.2 by purchasing it in our online store. Digital copies only...

“My Beast Made of Gold is My Vocation,” by G. C. Waldrep

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My beast made of gold is my vocation; it walks with me and makes a peaceable sound. It has no wings and it has no clay. I never touch it, if I can help it—though sometimes, knocked roughly, I brush it by accident. That is when...

“Rail,” by Andrea Cohen

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By the time we’d built the hand- rail, the hand had vanished— but still there was a sky to rail at. See more poems from Andrea Cohen by purchasing Issue 14.2 in our online store. Digital copies only...

excerpt from Sonja Livingston’s “Miracle of the Eyes”

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In 1985 statues across Ireland began to move. On Valentine’s Day, in the village of Asdee, seven-year-old Elizabeth Flynn was saying Hail Marys when a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus beckoned her with a curled finger. The...

excerpt from Matthew Ferrence’s “In the Cancer Center Waiting Room”

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A wailing begins at the registration window, a high-pitched adult voice, male, the elemental timbre an unmistakable keening of fear and pain. Even before I see him, I think of the purity of a baby’s cry and, also, that it is...

excerpt from Yxta Maya Murray’s “YouTube Comment 2 to Video of I Like America and America Likes Me by Joseph Beuys”

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I had hoped that I could make art after having a baby but now understand the temporary impossibility of this goal. My eight-month-old son Mauricio lies before me in his crib, finally sleeping following the “fade” method, a...

excerpt from Lindsey Drager’s “The Two-Body Problem”

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I accept the position in spring. When they call, they tell me I was the unanimous vote. It was you or no one, the department chair says. And no one didn’t want the position, she adds, and laughs. Okay, I say, then sign the...