Like most of the students in our eclectic PhD program, CR volunteer James Ellenberger has a “life-I-left-behind” story. Some of these pre-ivory-tower tales involve spotlit stages and mosh pits, the shark-eat-bull world of high finance, the loss of a productive copper mine in a crap hand of five-card draw, and a new identity courtesy of …
According to W. C. Williams, “You can’t get the news from poetry.” But you can from our blog! Here’s our latest. Poetry Daily is featuring a poem from our new issue today. Dan Bellm’s “Twilight” (11.2) is part of our special focus on longer works. In case you miss it, the poem will stay in …
Our new assistant editor, Don Peteroy, has some definite ideas about fiction. Author of Wally (Burrow Press, 2012), an epistolary travel novella about an unstable protagonist who drives from Cincinnati to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, to settle a score with Santa Claus, Don keeps a photocopied image of L. Ron Hubbard taped to his office wall. …
Mark off Monday on your calendar, Cincinnatians. On February 16 at 8 p.m., Ellen Ruth Harrison’s art-song offering, Sefiros (the score of which appears in our current issue), will be performed in the Robert J. Werner Recital Hall at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music. The concert celebrates Harrison receiving the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2014 …
Today we are celebrating the news that “Is Spot in Heaven?” (10.2) by David Kirby—or “Le Kirb” as he is known by his fan base—was selected for this year’s Best American Poetry volume. Editor Sherman Alexie (also a CR contributor) sure knows a ringer when he reads one. Congrats, David!
From his essay “Remembering Richard Remembering Mlle. Marty” (volume 3, number 1; summer 2006) In the summer of 2004 I spent a couple of weeks, as I regularly do, with Byron at the house in Solliès-Toucas where Richard lived for the last thirty-five years of his life, and we availed ourselves, as we regularly do …
As promised, and hopefully in time to save the remaining hairs on your head, here is the key to Michael’s first crossword. Stay tuned for the next puzzle!
We’re in the thick of mailing mayhem and don’t have time for a blog-post proper, but for fun we’ll toss out these shots of what’s on or next to our staff’s desks. This will be more fun for folks in the department, but if you match the image with the right staffer (Sara, Matt, Nicola, …
Fiction Editor Michael Griffith has been pitting himself against “puzzles,” as he calls them, for years. One might say he started with a puzzle passion, spending entire weekends with pen perched over a creased newspaper page. His preoccupation only grew until, when asked a question, he found himself responding with a crossword clue (“Six letters, …
Write what you know. It’s easy to tire of the adage, to bristle as the tweedy, bespectacled creative-writing-instructor-within brandishes his red pen at the slightest intimation of the unknown: dark matter, psychic surgery, monkey robot vampires from Planet Zed. When we asked 11.1 contributors Eric Pankey, Lesley Parry, and Michael Marberry to discuss their process, …
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