To learn more about the problems underlying disability tropes and metaphors, I turned to Emily Rose Cole, previous Cincinnati Review editorial assistant and current PhD candidate in English and Disability Studies at University of Cincinnati.
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In less than 500 words, Ayad’s sweeping essay takes us from the speaker’s mother’s baklava to the rams sacrificed on the family’s farm to the “grapey surface” of a “dissected sheep’s eye.”
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Proofreading reveals patterns between pieces, resonances that emerge from the collection of distinct voices. For me, it was food.
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In these translations, readers must counter assumptions about who provides narrative resolution and begin new understandings of old symbols as meaning accumulates and distills through the language.
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This wicked sharp dreamscape begins with our tween-boy narrator and his father being chased through a middle school by a bear.
Read MoreWith the approach of fall, sweaters, apple cider, and pumpkin-spice everything comes the time for literary nominations! We’re excited to share the news that we’ve nominated the following pieces by CR contributors for...
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In Kristin George Bagdanov’s debut full-length poetry collection Fossils in the Making (Black Ocean, 2019) it is no coincidence that “gyre” rhymes with “lyre.”
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This poem meditates on—and elevates—the word No in ways I haven’t seen before. I think, of course, of the issue of consent in intimate relationships, and the power that No needs to have in that context
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