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"I think what draws me to museum after museum is how much power I hold as a museumgoer."Today on the site, contributor N...
04/09/2026

"I think what draws me to museum after museum is how much power I hold as a museumgoer."

Today on the site, contributor Nick Kunze walks with us through a series of museums.

Congratulations to contributor Adam O. Davis on this week's publication of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY with University of Nebraska ...
03/09/2026

Congratulations to contributor Adam O. Davis on this week's publication of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY with University of Nebraska Press !

"How odd, he thinks, for the world to wait till the end to reveal its most magnificent self."Living somewhere between Ru...
02/09/2026

"How odd, he thinks, for the world to wait till the end to reveal its most magnificent self."

Living somewhere between Russian fairy tale and American myth, today's miCRo by Peter Krumbach is both haunting and strangely wry.

Wow. We reached our submissions cap--for both the journal and miCRo--within a record 24-ish hours. We appreciate everyon...
02/09/2026

Wow. We reached our submissions cap--for both the journal and miCRo--within a record 24-ish hours. We appreciate everyone who eagerly submitted this time. If you didn't get a chance to send to us, we open again in December. And keep an eye on our social accounts for special calls for submissions!

It's one of the best days of the year: open submissions day! Our submissions are open across fiction, poetry, LNF, and m...
01/09/2026

It's one of the best days of the year: open submissions day! Our submissions are open across fiction, poetry, LNF, and miCRo. We typically reach our cap within a day or two, so don't delay in sending us your best work.

"Schizophasia is my natural language; every time I speak cogent English, it is because I have medicated away a natural s...
28/08/2026

"Schizophasia is my natural language; every time I speak cogent English, it is because I have medicated away a natural state in favor of participating in an inaccessible society."

Today on our site, volunteer Rose Zinnia interviews contributor Rob Macaisa Colgate about his process, and his newly announced book.

"In hopes of making a living, my eleven-year-old sister takes up the trumpet and stops caring about anything else."In to...
26/08/2026

"In hopes of making a living, my eleven-year-old sister takes up the trumpet and stops caring about anything else."

In today's miCRo, Theodore Heil sets a snapshot of familial isolation and longing to the tune of B-flat. Link in first comment.

"I like to think of poetry as good at complicated feelings, and nonfiction as good at complicated situations." New on ou...
24/08/2026

"I like to think of poetry as good at complicated feelings, and nonfiction as good at complicated situations." New on our site: Arah Ko interviews Lisa Low about her debut full-length poetry collection, Replica (University of Wisconsin Press), the ethics of writing about family, and more. Link in first comment.

It's time for the changing of the guard! Outgoing Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman says goodbye in a hermit-crab essay usin...
21/08/2026

It's time for the changing of the guard! Outgoing Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman says goodbye in a hermit-crab essay using proofreading marks. Among her thoughts: Her replacement, Lily Davenport, "knows The Chicago Manual of Style like the back of her proverbial hand." Link in first comment.

"a leather trunkand handmade pinebox, coffin-sized,for holding riceair-tight."In today's miCRo by .bsky.social, the spea...
19/08/2026

"a leather trunk
and handmade pine
box, coffin-sized,

for holding rice
air-tight."

In today's miCRo by .bsky.social, the speaker reaches for an unnameable loss by glancing at everything around the negative space left by a lost family member.

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