Our Emerging Poets Festival kicks off this Friday afternoon in the Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library. We’ve made it part of our mission to support strong new writers—and four of these talented comers (bios below) will gather for a panel discussion at 2:00 and a reading at 3:00. Both events are free and open to the …
Kenneth Nichols over at Great Writers Steal has constructed a tutorial in thieving from Brendan Mathews’s short story “My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer.” Mathews’s story first appeared in issue 6.1, and later lit up the pages of Best American Short Stories 2010. Here’s a little something we …
Hey, Space Needle, you think you’re towering? You ain’t seen nothing. We Monsters of the Midwest are going to **literary reference alert** throw a Buick at you. You think you’re observation central? We’re going to **here’s another one** outgaze you into the abyss. You think you’re where the party starts, Seattle-wise? Wrongers. It starts at …
Coming of age is difficult, as any awkward teen will tell you. Your body is raging with hormones, creating sweaty palms, cracked voices, and terrible decisions. You have crushing responsibilities like taking out trash and cleaning your room. You’re supposed to find yourself (and you may be looking your whole life). You are vulnerable to …
Justine McNulty: A first collection of stories, Battleborn presents us with a compelling new voice, and over the course of the book, its author, Clare Vaye Watkins, displays a deft handling and understanding of, not only prose, but narrative. I appreciated the way the first story plays with the idea of “beginnings,” the way it …
Technically, our tenth isn’t till 2014, but we’re already gearing up for a TEN-tacular year. We just received the artwork for the anniversary poster, as well as some fabu key chains we’ll have at our AWP book-fair table. And there’s WAY more to come. Beginning with our November issue, we are extending our reach, if …
The blog was silent on Friday to mark the sudden passing of Sarah Richards Doerries, a contributor to our Winter 2008 issue who had been steadily and generously reading CR submissions for more than a year. She volunteered for this work because she loved it, and the editors here looked forward to her informed and …
You know how when you’re not sure what to order for lunch you throw a dart at the menu? No? Really? Just us? Okay, then you know when you aren’t sure how to stop your mother-in-law from buying you t-shirts with cute critters on them (because six is enough) you send a letter to Ann …
Brian Brodeur: As part of my reading for qualifying exams here at University of Cincinnati, I’ve been researching a module on Contemporary American narrative poetry. Though unfairly regarded by many poets and critics as déclassé, this poetic genre has enjoyed something of an awakening in recent years. I’m thinking not only of the verse novels …
Alice Munro has been named the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. Way back in 2006, The Cincinnati Review featured three reviews of her collection The View from Castle Rock. Did our prescient Managing Editor Nicola Mason call it early for Munro, knowing that a mere seven years later, she would win the …
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