October 2019 Archives

Why We Like It: “Next to Us: Sonnets, Divided” by Lis Sanchez

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 31, 2019 | Why We Like It

In “Next to Us: Sonnets Divided,” Sanchez skillfully considers what it means to be both simultaneously inside and outside acts of violence.

miCRo: “The Therapist Asks, How Does the Brain Feel” by Prince Bush

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 30, 2019 | miCRo

“The Therapist Asks, How Does the Brain Feel” is an evolving answer, a rickety list, a masterclass in the semicolon.

miCRo: Two microfictions by Matt Greene

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 23, 2019 | miCRo

Matt Greene’s microfictions take up the generation-defining question: how do we make sense of our place within an eroding world?

Debunking miCRo Myths

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 22, 2019 | Submission Trends and Tips

I came across many well-meaning flash fiction “Do and Don’t” lists all of which managed, without fail, to piss me off.

miCRo: Two pieces by Barbara Black

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 16, 2019 | miCRo

From their first sentences to their last, “Needlework” and “Gotunabe” pull the reader in with their odd, satisfying images. Drink these wonderful pieces up.

“Cubby Safe” by Julianna Baggott

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 15, 2019 | Special Features

Frequent CR contributor Julianna Baggott has constructed a dark and all-too-believable morality tale about gun violence in schools. The light tone of the young narrator belies the eerie circumstances the schoolchildren experience in the name of safety.

Translations: How to Get Started

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 10, 2019 | Editors' Dispatches

Translations play an integral role in our reading experience, but we don’t get many translation submissions. In this piece, I explore how a beginner might get started in translation, with help from Lily Meyer.

miCRo: “Retail Therapy” by Molly Bess Rector

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 9, 2019 | miCRo

In Molly Bess Rector’s poem “Retail Therapy,” lonely girls go shopping. Across reflecting couplets, the surface of a lake in summer morphs into a department store window. Behind the window grows a garden of what was and what could be: “Oh, to dress / beyond ourselves.”

Announcing Our Contest Winners!

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Oct 3, 2019 | Contests

Winners of the Eleventh Annual Robert and Adele Schiff Awards in Poetry and Prose:
Bernard Ferguson for his poem “you’re welcome” and Julie Marie Wade for her essay “Perfect Hands”