We’ve heard some good news this spring about our contributors! Joshua Weiner (Issues 2.2 and 9.1) won a Guggenheim fellowship. You can read his commentary on the poem “Outrageous Fortune” here. Jessica Hollander (Issue 8.1) won the 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Her book, In These Times the Home Is a Tired …
We at CR are excited to announce that composers from UC’s acclaimed College-Conservatory of Music have set to music some of the poems in our pages. They will be performing these pieces, with the help of CCM musicians and vocalists, in a special concert tomorrow, April 24, at 2:15 p.m. in room 3250 (the Masterclass …
Oh yes, we are on Facebook. If you like us . . . then LIKE us. You’ll find bonus goofy fun on our page. Right now, for example, there are new photo albums featuring staff, volunteers, and community supporters involved in Word Without End (our annual reading-series extravaganza) and our end-of-year cryfest (yesterday’s party, at …
Returning guest blogger Don Peteroy learned something from his interview with upstart novelist Marjorie Celona. If you mess with her, she will first outthink you, then put you in the hospital, then head to the kitchen to scramble some eggs. Marjorie Celona‘s first novel ,Y, was published in 2012 by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada and in …
Brian Trapp: It’s often said that fiction make us feel less lonely. However, growing up with a disabled twin brother, I often found novels to be a lonely place. Where were the stories about brothers like mine? Families like mine? Stories that depicted the severely disabled as more than objects of pity? This year, I …
Nicola Mason: As they say in the auction world when something is about to go, Fair warning! In this case, our Submission Manger is about to go offline for the usual issue-filling bits of poetry and prose. If you want to shoot us something for consideration, do it this weekend. The hammer falls on April …
The lineup for Word Without End is set. In addition to the fab folks Don Peteroy lauds below, we’ve nabbed Sheri Allen, Brian Brodeur, Kiley Cogis Brodeur, Les Kay, Michael Peterson, Sarah Strickley, Sara Watson, Dietrick Vanderhill, and Kathy Zlabek. How fun is this going to be? Um, very. Don Peteroy (from his Facebook status …
For the past several weeks the University of Cincinnati has had the pleasure of hosting Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of, most recently, Secure the Shadow (LSU, Southern Messenger Poets, 2012), as Elliston Poet-in-Residence. This past Friday Claudia gave a talk on the importance of measured syntax, during which she described her unusual …
Thanks to CityBeat magazine! They named us Cincinnati’s Best Lit Mag in their annual round-up of the staff’s favorite arts and nightlife in the Best of Cincinnati edition. We’re honored to be in such good company: Some of the other categories included Best Way to Score Free Alcohol Without Unwanted Sexual Advances (Mayday’s monthly whiskey-soaked …
Lisa Ampleman: I’ve been savoring Mary Szybist’s second book of poems, Incarnadine (Graywolf, 2013), released recently. Nearly eight years ago in St. Louis, I heard Szybist read from her first book, Granted, and I bought it immediately. In fact, I asked her where I could find a copy of one of the newer poems she’d …
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