Poetry Daily Feature
Poetry Daily will be featuring Joseph Campana’s review of Louise Glück’s Collected Poems in the latest issue of The Cincinnati Review all this week.
Cincinnati Review
CR’s Graphic Play: MOTH by Declan Greene
Maybe it’s our age, but as our tenth-anniversary year creeps ever closer, we’re getting worse at keeping secrets. So here it is: The Cincinnati Review is proud to announce that we will, over the next few months, produce the graphic play Moth by Australian playwright Declan Greene. Moth is the story of Anime-obsessed Sebastian and emo …
New Issue + Art Song
The Bad: Paper cuts. Unwieldy tape guns. Sitting on the floor criss-cross applesauce for hours on end. Rapid-onset carpal tunnel. The Good: Subscribers can look for CR 10.2 to magically appear via the still sprightly and efficient United States Postal Service. The Wonderful: This issue kicks off our tenth-anniversary year and features the printed score …
GO 10.2!
Our winter issue has arrived! And in the spirit of rooting it on as it makes its way from our hands, across the field (also known as the highway system), to the goal (your reading pleasure), we . . . well, we put on face paint. Actually we intended our cross-countenance cheer to read: GO …
Anxieties of Influence: Bagoo, Edmeades, Joyner, Schutt
As Harold Bloom contends, most poets, whether they admit it or not, struggle to surpass their influences. Wordsworth arm-wrestles Milton for The Prelude. Stevens posits a secular vision of the sublime to rival Dante’s devout cosmology. And part of Shakespeare, however deep and dark, envies Ingram Frizer for stabbing Kit Marlowe in the face. Four …
Pushcart Nominations
Nomination season is always a heated time in our office. We are usually a friendly and collegial bunch, but when asked to select just six pieces of poetry and prose from our two hearty 2013 issues, things can get ugly. We question one another’s aesthetic judgment. We raise our voices. Dinner party invitations are rescinded. …
Emerging Poets Festival
Along with unicorns, cephalopods, and whiskers on kittens, our list of favorite things includes promoting amazing new writers. Last week we hosted four such talents at our Emerging Poets Festival, where attendees gained insight on publishing a first book, and got a preview of some exciting projects on the horizon. Here is an excerpt from a …
Book Review News
A decade or so ago, when we read a good book review, it left us both hungry and restless. “Surely,” we’d say too loudly with finger raised, “there must be a different take on this, some other astute but equally illuminating opinion on the qualities of this work.” That’s why at The Cincinnati Review, we …
Art-Song Offering
A bit of news related to our developing interest in words and music. (Look for our first art-song feature in our November issue, coming soon!) Kevin Simmonds, whose poems appeared in 9.2 and will also appear in 11.1 (spring/summer 2014), is the composer of a musical piece being performed this weekend and next in San Francisco. …
AWP Small Press Publisher Award Finalist!
Thanks, AWP! We are finalists for the AWP Small Press Publisher Award, along with One Story and Creative Nonfiction. The winner will receive $2000 and an exhibit booth at the 2015 conference. We’ll be nibbling our nails till the announcement in Seattle!