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 …
Okay, maybe Mission Control isn’t especially interested in the cover of our winter issue (due out in November), but the unearthly orb does bring the multiverse to mind. Eric Lee’s gorgeous paintings-on-glass have a luminous quality that represents, for him, “the beauty in . . . what connects us,” and we’re excited to feature his …
The term has officially begun. That means we here at the mag are reuniting our posteriors with the loving impressions they long ago made in our chairs. Though the office is taking some getting used to, our reading period isn’t. It began earlier this month—August 15, to be exact. So we’re already in the thick …
Poetry Daily will be featuring work from the latest issue of The Cincinnati Review tomorrow, Thursday, June 20. They’re running something from our translation feature, “the last poem in the world,” by the Danish poet Benny Anderson. Among the most prominent poets in Denmark today, Anderson, who is going strong at eighty-three, is described by …
Big congrats to Roger Reeves, who has won a Pushcart for his poem “The Field Museum,” published in volume 9, number 2.
Californians, hark! On June 6, our esteemed poetry ed., Don Bogen, returneth to Berkeley. Don is a Cal graduate himself, and he is skulking back to what he terms “the scene of the crime” to host yet another event in our Greetings from Cincinnati series. For those unfamiliar, this is a stealth operation whereby we …
We’re sad to say goodbye to our hardy, super-duper volunteer Lisa Summe—who just graduated with an MA in creative writing from UC and is headed to Virginia Tech for an MFA in the fall. Our loss is their gain. The office won’t be the same without her brightly colored clothing, strong work ethic, and trenchant …
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