The Mailing of Magnitude
We’ve heard from the printer that our Winter 2015 issue will ship on Jan 20—which...
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Author: Cincinnati Review
Contributor Close-Up: Steve De Jarnatt
We just got wind of this extraordinary interview on Popdose with CR contributor Steve De Jarnatt,...
Read MoreWhy We Like It: “Bedside” by Andrea Cohen
Poet, first-year PhD student, and rock-star volunteer Matthew Pennock harbors some idiosyncratic aversions: proems that overuse anaphora, hoppy beers, zombie films that try too hard to make a point. In the office last week, as...
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading: Campus Satires
Don Peteroy: Come mid-February, I will stand before three examiners and, hopefully, demonstrate that the University of Cincinnati’s English department didn’t make a grave mistake when they accepted me for PhD candidacy. My...
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Claudia Emerson, 1957–2014
from PINION, “Sister’s Dream of the Empty Wing” Through room after room I follow...
Read MoreNEA Fellowships for CR Contributors
We’re thrilled to announce that poets and contributors Jessica Greenbaum (4.2, 6.1); Shara Lessley (6.1, 10.2); and Eliot Khalil Wilson (1.2) have been awarded Creative Writing Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment...
Read MorePas de Deux: Parry & Leegant
Welcome to the adagio movement of our Pas de Deux between fiction writers and 11.1 contributors Leslie Parry and Joan Leegant. Read on to witness these virtuosos pirouetting around such topics as adapting fairy tale motifs in...
Read MorePas de Deux: Leegant & Parry
Welcome back to another dynamic performance of our double-interview feature Pax de Deux, this time between fiction writers and 11.1 contributors Joan Leegant and Leslie Parry (about whose story “Vogelsong” Brenda Peynado wrote a...
Read MoreThe Voice: CR-style
We’ve just finished proofing the winter issue, which boasts—in addition to the usual singing signatures—a hundred extra pages. It’s the first of two issues devoted to long forms (thanks, NEA!), which of...
Read MoreSource Texts: Abbate, Leithauser, Silano, Van Winckel
As writers, we’re often asked about what inspired a piece, what outside stimulus provided the germ, the grist, or the spark for a first draft. Even the word inspiration, from the Latin inspīrār (to blow or breathe into), implies...
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