miCRo: “Blue Yarn” by Jackie Craven
In the prose poem “Blue Yarn,” Jackie Craven unsettles our understanding of domestic spaces.
miCRo: “Evening Caller” by Kate McIntyre
Kate McIntyre’s story has a surreal, uneasy humor and sharp scenic details: a velvet robe, a spine, a cord…
miCRo: “When He Heard about the Y2K Bug” by Addison Zeller
Addison Zeller creates a portrait of a father who is both protective of his family and hungry for apocalypse.
miCRo: “After After” by Uyen Phuong Dang
Dang’s “After After” captures the reverberating effects of violence and echoes the surrealism of war.
miCRo: “Black Snow” by Andrea Jurjević
In this evocative prose poem, time and distance are measured in objects, observations, and daily routine.
miCRo: “The White Door” by Sally Rosen Kindred
In this poem by Sally Rosen Kindred, unexpected childhood remembrances carry with them a sense of mourning.
miCRo: “Drowned” by Lucian Mattison
A near-drowning raises questions about faith and testimony in this poem by Lucian Mattison.
miCRo: “Next Stop, Beijing” by Aiden Heung
There’s a feeling of inevitability about trains—a stubbornness in the way a train moves along its track without deviation.
miCRo: “Or Better Yet” by Melissa Llanes Brownlee
In “Or Better Yet,” Llanes Brownlee captures the whirlwind of color and sound of a bustling family gathering.
miCRo: “My Landlord and I” by Michael Hugh Stewart
In this darkly comic hybrid piece, Michael Hugh Stewart charts an escalating feud over eviction and erasure.
miCRo: “Remission” by Sara Dudo
An incantatory poem with rich images from the natural world and a deft hand with syntactical ambiguity.
miCRo: “The Game for Winners” by Kimberly Elkins
In this microessay, Kimberly Elkins explores the intoxication of a dangerous adolescent game and how it colors all that follows in the character’s life.
