2,400 Thirsty Souls
Little known fact: We regularly receive submissions from inmates. Oddly—and...
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Month: June 2011
Dispatches from Belfast
We’re pining for our poetry editor, who is reading CR submissions all the way across the...
Read MoreBonus Material: Kerlikowske, Kalscheur, Liardet
Writers: you still have a bit more than a month to enter our summer contest. We’ve received a bunch of prose submissions (three with the particularly intriguing titles “Oil Spills Remind Me of Him,” “The...
Read MoreConsidering Course Adoption; or, Cud for the Classroom
Many thanks to PhD-in-the-making Eric Bliman both for teaching The Cincinnati Review in his poetry workshop and for writing about his and his students’ mental mastication of our mag, which I will refer to (for fun) as...
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Edith Pearlman Wins PEN/Malamud
Huge congrats to contributor Edith Pearlman on this prestigious award! Look for “Life...
Read MoreBonus Material: Davidson, Windholz, Khanna
Our general reading period may be over, but that doesn’t mean our work is finished. Instead, we’re focusing on our summer contest, which is now open for submissions (submit!). Rumor has it that an armored truck, possibly filled...
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading
by Nicola Mason Suddenly, I am a beekeeper. This is entirely due to the poet Liz Tilton, who some time back completed a brilliant stint as CR’s associate editor. She was an amazing officemate back then (We laughed; we cried; we...
Read More“Reciprocity”: Why We Like It
It’s not unusual for poet Ruth Williams to disappear on occasion. These absences are often preceded by some sort cryptic comment from Ruth, like “I have, each year, lived past the day I will die.” Then, a week or so later,...
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