Cincinnati Review

New volunteer Dario Sulzman has had many previous lives. We don’t mean that in the flighty New Age sense, though if we brought in the right mystic, perhaps we’d learn that Dario was a WWII pilot who pressed “eject” instead of “bomb” by accident, or a seventeenth-century Russian seamstress who died of infection after she …

We’ll soon be featured in the Standout Markets column of Writer’s Digest magazine. Here’s a sneak peak at a few of the interview questions as well as the answers that genre eds Don Bogen and Michael Griffith collaborated on. What makes a submission to The Cincinnati Review stand out? A combination of boldness and craft, a …

There’s something odd about the chair that Associate Editor Lisa Ampleman vacated when she graduated this past spring. The spot is now occupied by Brian Brodeur, but sometimes his visage seems to fluctuate, his beard disappears, and he speaks in Lisa’s voice when he says, “I’m headed to Starbucks for a green tea latte,” or …

Some of you may know of—and may even have attended—our Greetings Readings. These are events in which rogue poetry editor Don Bogen corrals group of our contributors in a rugged, faraway landscape (for example, Boston) for a night of incandescent verse, often followed by a hard-fought game of Twister. (Don is really, really limber.) One …

Every now and again, we are moved to laud the exceptional, behind-the-scenes efforts of our pool of trusted readers, who are weekly (yea, even through the “catch up” months of summer) poring over poems and stories and essays, etc., and rendering thoughtful judgments on their strengths and weaknesses. They are busy people with hectic lives, …

From Julianna Baggott‘s essay “My Mother in Her Mail-Order Scott Paper Company Dress: A Portrait of Intergenerational Neuroses” (10.1), we learned . . . well, first of all, that paper dresses exist. Or rather that they existed, er, before all those women caught on fire. Perhaps more to the point, we learned how this sartorial …

You’ve heard the expression Laughter is the best medicine. A look around the CR office would suggest that we rely on Laffy Taffy to cure most of our ills. But jokes and candy (and candy with jokes!) aren’t the only things that make us feel better when we’re feeling worse. Author Jeanette Winterson told a …