An embarrassment of riches! We learned last week that a fifth poem from our pages will appear in Best American Poetry 2012! Joining Julianna Baggott, James Kimbrell, Dean Rader, and Don Russ is Eric Pankey, whose poem “Sober Then Drunk Again” was chosen by Mark Doty for the honor. Four of those five poems, including …
One trend we’ve noticed here at CR is how many pieces we receive that are set in foreign countries. Not a problem in and of itself, but all too often what we get, instead of an affecting narrative or poem, is a travelogue, a Rick Steves-esque report of where characters or speakers went and what …
Results of the Blue Pencil Prize: Laura Somerville, eagle-eye extraordinaire, has won yet another azul editorial implement to add to her collection. (She tells us she mounts them on the wall. Perhaps she’ll send a pic of her distinguished, and growing, blue-pencil display?) Thanks, Laura. You remind us that what we do—and don’t do—matters. If …
At our weekly staff meeting on Wednesday, we talked proofreading and typesetting, but we also gorged ourselves on a delicious King Cake (Assistant Editor Becky Adnot-Haynes found the baby in her piece and will thus bring the cake next year), celebrating good times for CR staff members. As we noted a few weeks ago, volunteer …
Friends and readers: Nurse your chocolate hangover by having some editorial fun! Show off your proofreading skills by entering our Blue Pencil Prize contest here by this Friday, February 17. We’ve already got one winner, but there’s room for more: The next four people to find a legitimate error in issue 8.2 will win their …
We’ve got grammar on our ganglia as we painstakingly copy-edit our summer number in the hope of getting it to the typesetter by week’s end. Twice a year, as we peer at the sentences and lines that make up each two-hundred-plus-page issue, we encounter many of the same across-the-board errors. We all have different responses …
Yes, blog readers, it’s yet another installment of the peculiar probings of Don Peteroy—a CR-hosted series in which the ever-provocative DP pitches profoundly preposterous questions at hand-picked prosists. This week’s featured writer is one of our own—Margaret Luongo—who has made three appearances in our pages, and who was last seen wearing a blaze-yellow babydoll tee …
Devoted blog readers: don’t forget that the Blue Pencil Prize is up for grabs! The next four readers who find mistakes we missed during our multilevel proofreading process win the coveted blue Col-Erase pencil as well as their choice of a free issue, thermos, or sling pack. You know you want to make beautiful beryl …
A lot of blood, sweat, and tears go into the copy-editing and proofreading of each issue of CR (and mustard . . . we blame associate editor Matt McBride for the mustard stain on our copy of The Chicago Manual of Style). And now that our newest issue is officially available, we want you, readers, …
February is beginning well for The Cincinnati Review. Our new issue is out in the mail, the AWP conference is on the horizon, and it’s 57 degrees today. Who cares if Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow? His prediction is fixed by the mysterious Inner Circle, after all, and trees are beginning to bud already. Another …
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