Cincinnati Review

In this folio to accompany issue 22.1, five writers explore family secrets.

CD Eskilson, poet and communications manager, on their day job

Cincinnati writer Richard Hague on a local landmark and its connections to his experiences reading a poem closely and personally.

A craft exercise about how to understand character through plot and vice versa

On the night of the break-in, I was upstairs painting my daughter’s bedroom. I hoped Erin would see it as a surprise, a kindness, but with kids, you never know. The week before she’d asked us to paint her room ocean blue, and I’d said that was too dark a color, that she’d regret it, …

A poem that traverses nearly two millennia of African queens, in stanzas that overlap seamlessly

Poet Robert Thomas reads two sections of his sonnet crown published in Issue 21.2.