Crossword Solution
The first puzzle-solver to send us answers was the ever-so-sharp Laura Somerville (who won many—perhaps all—of our blue pencil prizes some years ago). Congrats, Laura! And the runner up (around 3 hours shy of first...
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Emerging Fiction Festival Begins Today!
The Department of English & Comparative Literature at University of Cincinnati will host its sixth biennial Emerging Fiction Writers Festival, featuring former CR contributors and crime-fighters Dean Bakopoulos and Alissa...
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The CR Crossword Challenge . . . continued
In the spirit of our Games, Contests, & Diversions category, we give you—our bloggy wogs...
Read MoreLast Call! Reading Period Ends March 15
Attention writers: If you’ve been putting off submitting your work, delay no longer. Our reading period ends in nine days—yes, that’s right, nine days—on March 15th at 11:59 pm EST. Or, in the celebrated words of Bertolt Brecht,...
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Mary Szybist: The Return
Ondrej Pazdirek: Last week, Mary Szybist returned to UC for her second and final stint as our 2015...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Drawn In” by Martha Collins
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...
Read MoreExtra! Extra! Read All About It!
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...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “The Radical” by Brock Clarke
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...
Read MorePerforming “Sefiros”
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...
Read MoreBest American Poetry 2015
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....
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