miCRo: “Of Precipice” by Michelle Menting
Michelle Menting’s lyric microessay “Of Precipice” moves with the vibrations of haiku, tanka, epigrams, and other short and imagistic poems
miCRo: “Flare” by Chrissy Martin
In her microessay on chronic pain, Chrissy Martin breaks down and redefines the language of suffering and resilience.
miCRo: “Snapper” by Nicholas Mainieri
In Nicholas Mainieri’s lean, lyrical story, a fishing trip between a boy and his father offers startling revelations about our place in the world and truths that run deeper than language.
miCRo: “Snapper” by Nicholas Mainieri
In Nicholas Mainieri’s lean, lyrical story, a fishing trip between a boy and his father offers startling revelations about our place in the world and truths that run deeper than language.
miCRo: “The Taegukgi on a Bus Ride from Apgujeong to Gyeongnidan” by Soleil David
In Soleil David’s poem “The Taegukgi on a Bus Ride from Apgujeong to Gyeongnidan” a flag caught on a side mirror inspires questions about devotion and belonging.
miCRo: “Homesick Sonnet” by Steven Espada Dawson
Steven Espada Dawson’s sonnet about the Los Angeles area creates a compelling scene about the complexity of the lost Eden.
miCRo: “Superjap” by KJ Nakazawa-Kern
In the short, clipped sentences and fragments of “Superjap,” KJ Nakazawa-Kern narrates an uncle and nephew’s trip to Japan.
miCRo: “During the Cretaceous Our Country Was Divided for Sixty Million Years” by Martha Silano
In an era of political division, this imaginative poem by Martha Silano details a literal division of the US back in the Cretaceous period.
miCRo: “34D” by Dorothy Chan
In the prose poem “34D,” Dorothy Chan uses a number and a letter to conjure up particular images that the poem both mentions and undercuts, in a statement about the poetics of sex.
miCRo: “Anna Walinska” by Arthur Kayzakian
Arthur Kayzakian’s compact ekphrastic prose poem “Anna Walinska” navigates big-picture questions of art and consumption.
miCRo: “Magdalene” and “Easter” by Sonja Livingston
Two essays that grapple with the place of women in history, specifically an enslaved Native ancestor and a prehistoric “greatest grandmother.”
miCRo: “Santa Maria” by Natalie Yap
Natalie Yap’s story “Santa Maria” asks us to consider the unconventional ways we let go of life and each other.
